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December 14, 2008

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

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The News Review:

- The Tales of Beedle the Bard
- Pea in a pod
- Experts investigate ‘Harry Potter hack’

The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Indianapolis Star United States 
Rowling (Children’s High Level Group $12. 99)Just in time for the holidays J. Rowling has given Harry Potter fans a little gift. No not a new book about the young wizard — THAT would be like a birthday combined with Christmas! Instead she’s written a charming confection of a book from the world of Harry Potter with the sparkle and wit that remind us why she became a publishing sensation in the first place.

Pea in a pod
Winnipeg Sun Canada 
Now they’re caged by paparazzi and the stone walls of celebrity. It’s a point not lost on the filmmakers of The Tale of Despereaux which casts British ingenue Emma Watson as Princess Pea in the animated adventure about a rodent (Matthew Broderick) with an appetite for adventure nearly as large as his ears. After seven years as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise who else would be as perfect for the role of a young royal? “You’re casting a 17-year-old princess so it’s very logical” says producer and co-screenwriter Gary Ross. “We were lucky to have her. Echoes co-director Sam Fell “She has this amazing celebrity around her and like the princess she’s surrounded by it.

Experts investigate ‘Harry Potter hack’
Secure Computing Australia 
)The series which has sold more than 300 million copies worldwide is set to end with its seventh book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrows" due in bookstores on 21 July. Kyle Good vice president of corporate communications at Scholastic the series' US distributor told SCMagazine. com today that she had no comment on the reports other than to say "Anyone can post almost anything they want on the internet and you can’t believe everything you see. "Gabriel claimed that hacking into the networks wasn’t difficult. "The attack strategy was the easiest one.
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