J.K. Rowling Will Now Be Making Her Long-Awaited Return to Children’s Books
LatestJust like how Michael Jordan played baseball competently and then came back to play basketball superbly, J.K. Rowling will be re-entering the children’s fiction racket…at least for one book. The Casual Vacancy may have coasted to a big debut, selling 124,603 copies or ten times the next-highest debut, but J.K. Rowling knows that those are Hufflepuff numbers compared to what the Harry Potter books debuted at, and so has appropriately announced that her next book will be for kids. Speaking to an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Rowling revealed that she has “a number of ideas” on her laptop, but kept mum on any other details either because she wants to keep everyone guessing, or because her next book is an anticlimactic postscript to the Potter saga — a pop-up book about how Harry actually failed grammar school and has to go back and repeat K-5 before he can actually collect his Hogwarts degree and assume control of his godfather’s chain of wizard hotels. Or something.