The Tales of Beedle the Bard: Large Print Dyslexia Edition (Hogwarts Library)

by J.K. Rowling

The Tales of Beedle the Bard has been favourite bedtime reading in wizarding households for centuries. Full of magic and trickery, these classic tales both entertain and instruct, and remain as captivating to young wizards today as they were when Beedle first put quill to parchment in the 15th century. There are five tales in all: ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ Harry Potter fans will know from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; ‘The Fountain of Fair Fortune’, ‘The Warlock's Hairy Heart’, ‘The Wizard and the Hopping Pot’ and ‘Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump’ complete the collection. These narrative gems are accompanied by explanatory notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore (included by kind permission of the Hogwarts Headmaster’s archive). His illuminating thoughts reveal the stories to be much more than just simple moral tales, and are sure to make Babbitty Rabbitty and the slug-belching Hopping Pot as familiar to Muggles as Snow White and Cinderella.

This large print, dyslexia-friendly edition of these much loved fairytales pairs J.K. Rowling’s original text with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. Features to aid accessibility include RNIB-approved and dyslexia-friendly fonts and font sizes, tinted paper for glare reduction and maximum contrast, captions and detailed descriptions to accompany each illustration and themed navigational aids to assist the reader.

A contribution from the sale of each book will go to Lumos.

• ISBN10: 1408894610
• ISBN13: 9781408894613
• Publish Date: 7 February 2019 (first published 2 August 2008)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[kimbacaffeinate]

Like muggle fairy tales, these stories teach lessons and I found them delightful and whimsical. Dumbledore bequeathed a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard in the last Potter book and we were treated to The Tale of The Three Brothers.

Listening to the book in its entirety was wonderful. Not only did it evoke memories of the series for me, it also allowed me to once again slip into this world.

The Wizard and the Hopping Pot -read by Warwick Davis, who played Professor Flitwick ­in the Harry Potter films.
The Fountain of Fair Fortune – read by Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films.
The Warlock’s Hairy Heart– read by Jason Isaacs known as Lucius Malfoy in the films.
Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump – read by Bonnie Wright. She played Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films.
The Tale of the Three Brothers – read by Noma Dumezweni. Noma played Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, London’s West End and New York’s Broadway productions.

Sally Mortemore read the introductory note from the author. She played the librarian Madam Pince from the Harry Potter films.

Jude Law who played Albus Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts films continues his role as Albus Dumbledore. At the end of each story he reads notes from Dumbledore. These were some of my favorite moments in the audiobook.

As you can see the cast of narrators is brilliant and each brought the stories to life and recreated the world for me.

This is a short listen, but each story was magical. The Fountain of Fair Fortune and The Tale of Three Brothers were my favorites of the collection.

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[kiracanread]

A fun selection of additional stories in the Harry Potter universe. A quick, enjoyable read, reminiscent of how fun the Harry Potter universe is.

[Pigpen.Reads]

I regret not picking this up sooner!

[Steph L]

A fun read for Harry Potter fans of all ages. It's like the Grimms Fairytales, but for magic folk and muggles alike.

[Jyc]

★★★★ // mystical.

[sstaley]

Worth a one time read, but I won't be buying this. I did like the notes from Albus Dumbledore at the end of each story.

[angelarenea9]

I was so excited that J.K. Rowling wrote this book, it's like she opens the door just a little bit and lets us jump into the Harry Potter world! I was however disappointed that the only stories that were included were the ones mentioned in the Deathly Hallows. I was kinda hoping for more! But it defiantly was amazing!

[wyvernfriend]

Cleverly written with commentaries about the stories and how they relate to reality and what lessons are to be learned from the story.

This is an interesting set of stories, written as if they were fairy tales for wizardling children, along with some quite humourous interpretations and discussions of the bowderdisations that occured, quite as if they had been written in the real world and the changes that would have happened to a story over time.

The stories vary in quality. The Wizard and the Hopping Pot is probably my least favourite a story about sharing with others. The Fountain of Fair Fortune is all about learning to deal with life and that nothing is easy - one of my favourites. The Warlock's Hairy Heart is a bit gruesome, but would probably appeal to those who like their tales to end in nastyness.
Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump is a clever tale of persecution and how a Witch evaded capture and changed some minds.
The Tale of the Three Brothers is a wizardly warped story about the proverbial three brothers and tricking death.

Overall not a bad set of stories. A nice look into the world of Harry Potter.

A delightful bunch of sometimes gruesome but enchanting wizard fairy tales of a moral point. I love fairytales and this was perfection.

[inlibrisveritas]

Another companion book to the Harry Potter series that has so much wonder of it's own. It's nice to have a book like this,it's helps imagine what it would be like to have your mom or dad telling them to you as a little kid. They are lovely little stories that would seem like real stories that have been around for a long time.