Here's The Cover Of The Fully Illustrated Edition Of "Harry Potter"

Scholastic and Bloomsbury have released the cover of the upcoming fully illustrated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Scholastic and Bloomsbury, the U.S. and U.K. publishers of the Harry Potter series, today released the cover image of the upcoming fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone:

Jacket art by Jim Kay © 2015 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Illustrated by award-winning artist, Jim Kay, the cover is an image of Harry Potter on Platform 9 ¾ surrounded by witches and wizards, trunks and owls, about to board the Hogwarts Express for the first time and is available for download at http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/harrypotter.

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Previously, Scholastic released four full-color images from the book, which will have over a hundred full-color illustrations:

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Can We Guess What Your Reading Habits Say About Your Love Life?

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Are You More Gryffindor Or Slytherin?

10 points to you for taking this quiz!

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21 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Kindle

F-READ-OM.

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Here's a list of the over 8,000 ebook titles you can read for free. Project Gutenberg is another great resource for free, downloadable ebooks.

Pixel of Ink and Centsless Books feature ebooks that are free or sold at a deep discount for a limited time. Open Library is a site where you can borrow or read over 1 million titles.

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36 Of The Most Beautiful Words In The Philippine Language

Just a little something to add to your kinaadman.

"Kilig"

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"Timpi"

Filipino.

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"Tinatangi"

Filipino. Via Hazel Ann Rias.

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An Intimate Look Into The Lives Of NYC Public Housing Residents

“These photographs are completely different from those normally displayed by the media about project life.”

On April 7, a beautiful 135-page book called Project Lives will be released by powerHouse Books, bringing their pictures together for an unprecedented and intimate look into the lives of New York City public housing residents.

Each week, participants were given a disposable camera to use throughout the week and hand in at the beginning of the following class. Film was processed and photographs were returned to the participants the following week. As we say in the book, youngsters were puzzled by the absence of the 'delete' feature.

"I love living in my neighborhood because I get to hang out with my friends and dance every day. I've been in my neighborhood all my life. There was once a girl I knew for six years. One day she had to go to a different home, so I made an 'I love you' card." —Angelly Suero

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This Is The Official Cover Of Harper Lee's New Novel, “Go Set A Watchman”

The author’s sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird will be released on July 14th, 55 years after the original novel.

This is the book cover for Harper Lee's highly anticipated novel, titled Go Set a Watchman.

Image courtesy of Harper Collins

This sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird comes 55 years after the original novel was published and has also been the source of some controversy.

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After the news broke, there were initially concerns about whether Lee was being exploited or not because of her health and state of mind, but an investigation by the state of Alabama found no evidence of fraud.

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Go Set a Watchman was reportedly written before To Kill a Mockingbird. The story takes place 20 years after everything that happens in the first installment, and is about the homecoming of Scout.

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Here's The UK Cover For Harper Lee's "Go Set A Watchman"

The follow-up to To Kill A Mockingbird will be published July 15th.

Here is the UK and Commonwealth cover for Harper Lee's second novel:

The book arrives 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird was first published in 1960.

William Heinemann

Once home she is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father's attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.

Watchman was actually written before Mockingbird, and was thought lost until it was discovered by her lawyer last year.

The publication has proved controversial among both industry figures and readers. Lee has been in poor health since a stoke in 2007, and many are worried she is not in a fit state of mind and is possibly being exploited.

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41 Invaluable Lessons Books Taught Us About Life

“Books will always be there for you.”

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2. From Exit to Eden by Anne Rice:

"Like what you like, love who you love, and understand that being different doesn't make you undeserving or incapable of love."

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3. From Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut:

"Accept that things happen. It may not be for a reason, and you may have no control over it, but the first step to getting through it is accepting what it is."

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4. From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë:

"Don't be scared because you don't have all the answers right away. You will learn through your experiences and find your own way to happiness. Don't rely on others to tell you how to be happy or what makes a good life. It's up to you to follow your heart and find happiness from there."

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5. From the A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket:

"Being lonely is OK, and not everyone has to like you. You can't always rely on people."

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Which Movie Adaptation Is Actually Better Than The Book?

It does happen.

It's true that movie adaptations rarely live up to the books they're based on.

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But sometimes, just sometimes, the movie is actually better. Like The Notebook, for instance...

There was no Ryan Gosling in the book.

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Or The Godfather.

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Or even, dare we say it, Fight Club.

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