Who is the author of 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard'?
"an appendix contains a pronunciation guide. Hints throughout point to the next Magnus Chase installment."" ""Hypable"" writes ""In fact, it reads a lot like J.K. Rowling’s Tales of Beedle the Bard or Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Riordan clearly has his own voice, though, and the myriad of characters who step forward to write entries in Hotel Valhalla quickly make a name for themselves."" A staff reviewer for ""YA Books Central"" expressed sadness for the lack of drawings. Hotel Valhalla: Guide to the Norse Worlds Hotel Valhalla: Guide to the Norse Worlds (also known as For Magnus Chase:"
"Bernard Mandeville Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville (; 15 November 1670 – 21 January 1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for ""The Fable of the Bees"". Mandeville was born on 15 November 1670, at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where his father was a prominent physician. On leaving the Erasmus school at Rotterdam he showed his ability by an ""Oratio scholastica de medicina"" (1685), and at Leiden University in 1689 he produced the"
"hibernica"" (1744). Bernard Mandeville Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville (; 15 November 1670 – 21 January 1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for ""The Fable of the Bees"". Mandeville was born on 15 November 1670, at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where his father was a prominent physician. On leaving the Erasmus school at Rotterdam he showed his ability by an ""Oratio scholastica de medicina"" (1685), and at Leiden University in 1689 he"
"both Voldemort's and Harry Potter's ancestors. Towards the end of the novel, Albus Dumbledore also confirms Harry's connection to the Peverells, and states that the three brothers might in fact have been the creators of the Hallows. The introduction (written by Rowling) to the publications released in December 2008 mentions that the fictional character Beedle the Bard was born in Yorkshire, lived in the 15th century, and had ""an exceptionally luxuriant beard"". Rowling started writing the book soon after finishing work on the seventh ""Harry Potter"" novel. During an interview with her fandom she also stated that she used other"
"and MEP Emma Nicholson founded the Children's High Level Group (now Lumos). In January 2006, Rowling went to Bucharest to highlight the use of caged beds in mental institutions for children. To further support the CHLG, Rowling auctioned one of seven handwritten and illustrated copies of ""The Tales of Beedle the Bard"", a series of fairy tales referred to in ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"". The book was purchased for £1.95 million by online bookseller Amazon.com on 13 December 2007, becoming the most expensive modern book ever sold at auction. Rowling gave away the remaining six copies to those"
"In 2007, Rowling composed seven handwritten copies of ""The Tales of Beedle the Bard"", a collection of fairy tales that is featured in the final novel, one of which was auctioned to raise money for the Children's High Level Group, a fund for mentally disabled children in poor countries. The book was published internationally on 4 December 2008. Rowling also wrote an 800-word prequel in 2008 as part of a fundraiser organised by the bookseller Waterstones. All three of these books contain extra information about the wizarding world not included in the original novels. In 2016, she released three new"
"Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (March 29, 1831 – March 10, 1919) was a British novelist and teacher. Her career is an illustration of the capacity of woman under stress of sorrow to conquer the world and be successful. Many of the plots of her stories are laid in Scotland and England. The scenes are from her girlhood recollection of surroundings. Her works include, ""Jan Vedder's Wife"", ""The Border Shepherdess"", ""Feet of Clay"", ""Friend Olivia"", ""The Bow of Orange Ribbon"", ""Remember the Alamo"", ""She Loved a Sailor"", ""A Daughter of Fife"", ""The Squire of Sanddal Side"", ""Paul"
"She has also added a note about the stone as “traditionally associated with love, balance and joy in daily life”. On 31 July 2008, it was announced ""The Tales of Beedle the Bard"" would also be made available for the public, in both standard and collector's editions. The book was published by Children's High Level Group and printed and distributed by Bloomsbury, Scholastic, and Amazon.com. The decision was taken due to disappointment among ""Harry Potter"" fans after it had initially been announced a wide public release was not intended. Similarly to ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"" and ""Quidditch"
"The Bard's Tale The Bard's Tale is a fantasy role-playing video game franchise created by Michael Cranford and developed by Brian Fargo's Interplay Productions (1985-1991) and inXile Entertainment (2004-present). Official Cluebooks were published by Electronic Arts for the first three Bard's Tale games that expanded on the games' stories and added new characters: The Cluebook for the first game (1986, ) was written by T.L. Thompson as an in-universe document, the journal of a lord who had very nearly succeeded in solving the quest before finding that his party had lost crucial items. The party was implicitly wiped out just"
"books as a source of inspiration for the tales. More specifically, ""The Tale of the Three Brothers"", the only story included entirely in ""The Deathly Hallows"", was inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Pardoner's Tale"" from ""The Canterbury Tales"". Originally ""The Tales of Beedle the Bard"" had only been produced in a limited number of seven handmade copies, all handwritten and illustrated by the author herself. The books were bound in brown morocco leather, and decorated with hand-chased silver ornaments and mounted semiprecious stones by silversmith and jeweller Hamilton & Inches of Edinburgh. Each of the silver pieces represents one of"
"the unparalleled level of plot detail and development. The Bard's Tale The Bard's Tale is a fantasy role-playing video game franchise created by Michael Cranford and developed by Brian Fargo's Interplay Productions (1985-1991) and inXile Entertainment (2004-present). Official Cluebooks were published by Electronic Arts for the first three Bard's Tale games that expanded on the games' stories and added new characters: The Cluebook for the first game (1986, ) was written by T.L. Thompson as an in-universe document, the journal of a lord who had very nearly succeeded in solving the quest before finding that his party had lost crucial"
"who have a close connection with the ""Harry Potter"" books. In 2008, Rowling agreed to publish the book with the proceeds going to Lumos. On 1 June 2010 (International Children's Day), Lumos launched an annual initiative – ""Light a Birthday Candle for Lumos"". In November 2013, Rowling handed over all earnings from the sale of ""The Tales of Beedle the Bard"", totalling nearly £19 million. In July 2012, Rowling was featured at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London, where she read a few lines from J. M. Barrie's ""Peter Pan"" as part of a tribute to Great Ormond"
"Maria Taylor Beale Maria Parker Taylor Beale (January 30, 1849 – January 21, 1929) was an American author. She published ""Jack O'Doon: A Novel"", a novel about the North Carolina coast, in 1895, and ""The White Horse In The Tree Top"", as well as a number of short stories. She was born Maria Taylor in Richmond, Virginia, in 1894, and studied art in Paris. She married Charles Willing Beale, who was also an author, on January 25, 1872, and lived in Arden, North Carolina (which they helped found and which her husband named after the woods in William Shakespeare's ""As"
"to Marder/Beanworld"" appear in at least the following publications: Larry Marder Larry Marder (born May 29, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American cartoonist and writer, best known as the creator of comic book ""Tales of the Beanworld"", which began as an ""essentially self-published title"" in 1984. Beginning in 2009, Dark Horse Books began to reprint Tales of the Beanworld, in two volumes, and then went on to publish two more volumes of new Beanworld stories by Larry Mauder. Marder was educated at the Hartford Art School in Connecticut in the early 1970s, earning a BFA degree in 1973. He"
"The Fable of the Bees The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits is a book by Bernard Mandeville, consisting of the poem ""The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn’d Honest,"" along with prose discussion of the poem. The poem was published in 1705, and the book first appeared in 1714. The poem suggests many key principles of economic thought, including division of labor and the ""invisible hand"", seventy years before these concepts were more thoroughly elucidated by Adam Smith. Two centuries later, the noted economist John Maynard Keynes cited Mandeville to show that it was ""no new thing"
"Mary Bard Mary Bard Jensen (1904–1970) was a 20th-century American author best remembered today as the sister of Betty Macdonald (""Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle"", ""The Egg and I"".) Mary Bard was born in Butte, Montana in 1904, the eldest of five children. With their mining engineer father, the family traveled all over the country, moving so frequently that Mary did not complete one uninterrupted year of school until she was 13. After a year at the University of Washington and stints as a stenographer, filing clerk and switchboard operator, she finally settled on advertising and wrote radio commercials. Bard was the author"
"has the hero of The Glass Bead Game discuss Bengel's writings. Johann Albrecht Bengel Johann Albrecht Bengel (24 June 1687 – 2 November 1752), also known as ""Bengelius"", was a Lutheran pietist clergyman and Greek-language scholar known for his edition of the Greek New Testament and his commentaries on it. Bengel was born at Winnenden in Württemberg. Due to the death of his father in 1693, he was educated by a family friend, David Wendel Spindler, who became a master in the gymnasium at Stuttgart. In 1703 Bengel left Stuttgart and entered the University of Tübingen as a student at"
"Charles Godfrey Leland Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903) was an American humorist, writer, and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Princeton University and in Europe. Leland worked in journalism, travelled extensively, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics. He published books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions. He worked in a wide variety of trades, achieved recognition as the author of the comic ""Hans Breitmann’s Ballads"", and fought in two conflicts. He wrote ""Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches"", which became a primary source text for"
"Pauline Gedge Pauline Gedge (born December 11, 1945) is a Canadian novelist best known for her historical fiction novels, including the best-selling ""Child of the Morning"", ""The Eagle and the Raven"", her fantasy novel ""Stargate"", and her Egyptian trilogies, ""Lords of the Two Lands"" and ""The King’s Men"". She also writes science fiction, fantasy and horror. Her 13 novels have sold more than six million copies in 18 languages. Her first four novels were published with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. The Dillons almost never authorized their work for sale beyond that directly commissioned, but reproductions of their"
"Sebastian Faulks Sebastian Charles Faulks, (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – ""The Girl at the Lion d'Or"", ""Birdsong"" and ""Charlotte Gray"". He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently ""A Week in December"" (2009) and ""Paris Echo"", (2018) and a James Bond continuation novel, ""Devil May Care"" (2008), as well as a continuation of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series, ""Jeeves and the Wedding Bells"" (2013). He was a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz ""The Write Stuff"". Faulks was"
"Martin Waddell Martin Waddell (born 10 April 1941) is an Irish writer of children's books. He may be known best for the texts of picture books that feature anthropomorphic animals, especially the ""Little Bear"" series illustrated by Barbara Firth (not to be confused with Minarik & Sendak's ""Little Bear"" series). He also writes under the pen name Catherine Sefton, for older children, primarily ghost stories and mystery fiction. The work by Sefton most widely held in WorldCat libraries is the novel ""In a Blue Velvet Dress"" (1972). For his ""lasting contribution"" as a children's writer Waddell received the Hans Christian"
"Richard Marsh (author) Richard Marsh (12 October 1857 – 9 August 1915) was the pseudonym of the English author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. A best-selling and prolific author of the late 19th century and the Edwardian period, Marsh is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel ""The Beetle"", which was published the same year as Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897), and was initially even more popular. ""The Beetle"" remained in print until 1960. Marsh produced nearly 80 volumes of fiction and numerous short stories, in genres including horror, crime, romance and humour. Many of these have been republished recently, beginning"
"Bronze Axe"" and ""The Desperate Journey"". Kathleen Fidler Kathleen Fidler (Kathleen Annie Fidler Goldie) was a prolific author of children's books, born on 10 August 1899 in Coalville, Leicestershire. She was raised in Wigan and North Wales, where she became a teacher and later school headmistress. She married in 1930 and moved to Edinburgh shortly afterwards, where she began writing stories for her children, finally settling in Lasswade in Midlothian. During the course of her career, she wrote over 80 novels and non-fiction books for children, many of her novels following the adventures of two families, The Brydons and The"
"Hartas. Martin Waddell Martin Waddell (born 10 April 1941) is an Irish writer of children's books. He may be known best for the texts of picture books that feature anthropomorphic animals, especially the ""Little Bear"" series illustrated by Barbara Firth (not to be confused with Minarik & Sendak's ""Little Bear"" series). He also writes under the pen name Catherine Sefton, for older children, primarily ghost stories and mystery fiction. The work by Sefton most widely held in WorldCat libraries is the novel ""In a Blue Velvet Dress"" (1972). For his ""lasting contribution"" as a children's writer Waddell received the Hans"
"Hesse and began awarding its Hermann Hesse prize in 2017. Musician Steve Adey adapted the poem ""How Heavy the Days"" on his 2017 LP """"Do Me a Kindness"""". Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ""Demian"", ""Steppenwolf"", ""Siddhartha"", and ""The Glass Bead Game"", each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Hermann Karl Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg, German"
"Zilpha Keatley Snyder Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 11, 1927 – October 8, 2014) was an American author of books for children and young adults. Three of Snyder's works were named Newbery Honor books: ""The Egypt Game"", ""The Headless Cupid"" and ""The Witches of Worm"". She was most famous for writing adventure stories and fantasies. Snyder received the Newbery Honor. Snyder was born in Lemoore, California, and spent all but brief periods of her life in Northern California. She began writing fiction in the 1960s and worked with editor Jean Karl on her debut novel ""Season of Ponies"", which Atheneum Books"
"You Like It""). She died in Arden on January 21, 1929, and is buried with her husband at Calvary Episcopal Church Cemetery in Fletcher, North Carolina. Maria Taylor Beale Maria Parker Taylor Beale (January 30, 1849 – January 21, 1929) was an American author. She published ""Jack O'Doon: A Novel"", a novel about the North Carolina coast, in 1895, and ""The White Horse In The Tree Top"", as well as a number of short stories. She was born Maria Taylor in Richmond, Virginia, in 1894, and studied art in Paris. She married Charles Willing Beale, who was also an author,"
"of the three volume ""Best Friends"" series for girls. She also wrote three autobiographical works: ""Just Be Yourself"", ""The Doctor Wears Three Faces"", and ""Forty Odd"". Married to a doctor, she was the mother of three daughters. Mary Bard Mary Bard Jensen (1904–1970) was a 20th-century American author best remembered today as the sister of Betty Macdonald (""Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle"", ""The Egg and I"".) Mary Bard was born in Butte, Montana in 1904, the eldest of five children. With their mining engineer father, the family traveled all over the country, moving so frequently that Mary did not complete one uninterrupted year"
"""funny, sinister, wise and captivating"" and likening them to the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. ""The Telegraph"" reviewed it unfavourably, noting that they ""would be unremarkable were it not for the body of work that lies behind it"" and that there was ""an element of padding to make it a respectable length"". A live puppet show of ""The Fountain of Fair Fortune"" and ""The Tale of the Three Brothers"" is presented daily at the Diagon Alley expansion of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Florida. The Tales of Beedle the Bard The Tales of Beedle the"
"appeared in a 1963 Alfred Hitchcock horror anthology and short story, ""The Day the Time Changed"" in a 1965 Saturday Evening Post. Two cartoon books have been published, Beatville U.S.A. (1961) and Borderline Cases (1962). George Mandel George Mandel (born February 11, 1920) is an American author and early writer of the Beat Generation. His novels, interviews, novellas, cartoons and short stories have been carried major print magazines and collections. He has also contributed key elements to screenplays for Hollywood films. George Mandel was born in New York City. Mandel was educated at the Pratt Institute, The Art Students League"
"Elek Benedek Benedek Elek, western name order ""Elek Benedek"" [Hungarian], Born on (30 September 1859 – 17 August 1929) was a Hungarian journalist and writer, widely known as ""The Great Folk-Tale Teller"" of The ""Szekely_Hungarian"" Fairy-Tales. Born in Kisbacon, Transylvania (today Băţani Mic, Romania), he studied in Székelyudvarhely (Romanian: Odorheiu Secuiesc) and later in Budapest. He went as a student with Job Sebesi to collect folklore elements. The result was a collection of ""Transylvanian Folk Tales"", which was met with so much positive critique, that the young Elek Benedek cut short his studies. He worked at first as a journalist"
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after dosing him with tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections, but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne &"
"Frances Biddle (born 1947), also became an author. A series features the fictitious Philadelphia character Martha Beale. Livingston L. Biddle Jr. Livingston Ludlow Biddle Jr. (May 26, 1918 – May 3, 2002) was an American author and promoter of funding of the arts, from a wealthy Pennsylvania family. Livingston Ludlow Biddle was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on May 26, 1918. His mother was Euginie Carter Law, and father was Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1877–1959) of the Biddle family of Philadelphia, who published poems such as ""The Understanding Hills"". Ancestors included grandfather Edward Biddle (1851–1933) who married Emily Taylor Drexel (1851–1883),"