Scholastic has released the cover of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," by J.K. Rowling.
Half-Blood Prince is the sixth Harry Potter book and due in stores on July 16th.
Mary GrandPre, the illustrator of all five previous U.S. editions, has once again supplied the art fort he cover.
The cover of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" depicts a 16-year-old Harry looking very attentive and Dumbledore with his hand extended as they look into a basin from which a mysterious green light is emanating.
"In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown," said Mary GrandPre. "For the cover of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the mood of the art is truly eerie. I wanted the colors to be strong and I chose upward lighting and dramatic shadows to convey a kind of surreal place and time. It is an honor to illustrate for such an amazing writer as J.K. Rowling. She gives me, as an illustrator, so much to work with."
The US cover of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'
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Scholastic have also announced the release of a deluxe edition of the book on the same day. The edition will include a 32-page insert on special paper at the end of the book featuring near scale reproductions of Mary GrandPre's interior art, as well as a never- before-seen piece of full-color-art for the frontispiece. The book, which comes in a foil-stamped cardboard slipcase printed with the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince cover image, will also include a blind-stamped cloth case, full-color endpapers printed with the jacket art from the regular edition, luxurious foil, and a wraparound jacket featuring exclusive, suitable-for-framing art from Mary GrandPre.
The deluxe edition will be a total of 704 pages and have a retail value of $60.00.
You can pre-order the book via Amazon and Amazon UK .
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