You guys may or may not be aware that JIM KAY (illustrator of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness) will be illustrating Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Philosopher’s Stone in the UK), which will be coming out in October of this year! As a HUGE Potterhead, I’m obviously very excited about this, both because I always want more of this world and because I love Jim Kay’s illustrations. I think his dark, strange, and unique illustrations will be absolutely perfect Today, Scholastic released four images by Jim Kay (of Draco, Hermione, Ron, and Hagrid!). My favorite has got to be Draco (Draco is one of my favorite characters), but I also really love Hermione’s illustration (if you zoom in you can see all kind of cool engravings in the door – Lupin, Riddle, Snape). I do not own any of the images; they are available for download in the Scholastic Media Room.
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These are beautiful! I love how they don’t look anything like the movie cast. I began reading the books right around the time the first movies came out, so I’ve always had the actors in my head as I read (beyond the little sketches in the books, of course). These are different but still awesome. I love Hermione’s confidence and curls. 🙂
I love these! I’m so excited to see how everyone looks. 🙂
What amazing illustrations! Can’t wait to see the whole set. It’s such a skill to be able to reimagine something so already defined in everyone’s heads. Gah, I wish I could draw like that!
Now this goes and confuses everything again. LOL. I’ve been wanting to get a new HP set for AGES and I had it down to a full set of the original Bloomsbury adult covers, OR the new children’s set by Bloomsbury by Jonny Duddle. I originally wanted the Hogwarts castle set, but it’s US scholastic, and it’s sorcerer’s stone instead of philosopher’s stone and I can’t deal with that. Le Sigh. R x
Lol. I just want ALL of the boxsets of HP. I mean, I think every Potterhead does. BUT I LOVE Jim Kay’s illustrations so this is a no-brainer for me.
I’m the same! I haven’t *technically* got my own set, so I’m trying to decide which one to buy. Every time I think I’ve made up my mind, a new beautiful edition comes out! Damn this edition’s prettiness!
My one true love will always be the original Bloomsbury covers because I grew up with them, but they’re hard to come by now. I definitely need to do obsessive list making to make my decision! R x
But it’s so PREEEETTTTYYY!! This one’s going to be on my shelf no matter one.
How neat! I didn’t even know this was out there!
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Yay! Glad I could bring it to your attention. :))
Oooh how lovely! It’s almost a bit aggravating how many different edition of HP there are. I want to buy ALL of them but I don’t have the space or money to.
Same here, but this is one I HAVE to have.
Those are really cool illustrations!
RIGHT? Ahhh. Love them.
It is amazing how these new illustrations give the books such a different feel.
Don’t they? I absolutely love the Draco and Hermione ones because they bring something new to both of their characters.
So pretty!
Wow they are amazing. The Draco one is my favourite, not too keen on the Hermione one.
I LOVE the Draco one! Why don’t you like the Hermione one?
Not sure, just doesn’t feel like Hermione to me, but I suppose that’s how the artist sees her. But I did love the setting Hermione was in, had a very Hogwarts feel. 🙂