Author JK Rowling said she would release a free online serialization of a bedtime story she wrote for her children 10 years ago.
NEW STORY. British author J.K Rowling announces she is releasing a story called 'The Ickabog' for kids aged 7 to 9. File photo by Justin Tallis/AFPbooks JK Rowling said on Tuesday, May 26, she would release a free online serialization of a bed-time story she wrote for her children 10 years ago.story"down from the attic" and publish it for children forced to stay at home during the coronavirus lockdown.
"My now teenagers were touchingly enthusiastic, so downstairs came the very dusty box, and for the last few weeks I've been immersed in a fictional world I thought I'd never enter again," she said in a statement. Rowling said she would post the first two chapters on a dedicated website – www.theickabog.com – on Tuesday, with 34 further instalments released each weekday until July 10.
She then intends to publish the story in English in November and other languages later on. All royalties will be given to projects assisting groups particularly affected by the pandemic.is a story"in the fairy tale tradition" set in an imaginary land and aimed primarily at children aged between 7 and 9.
It is unrelated to any of Rowling's other previous works, though she noted it was penned"in fits and starts" between heris a story about truth and the abuse of power," she said, adding it was not"intended to be read as a response to anything that's happening in the world right now".The first two chapters of The Ickabog are available for free here:
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