Harry Potter author JK Rowling is to read from her newly-released book of fairytales to about 200 schoolchildren.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard were first mentioned in her last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Rowling will read from one of the seven original hand-written copies of the book at a tea party at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Profits from the tales will be donated to the Children’s High Level Group, a charity co-founded by the author.

The National Library of Scotland has borrowed an original copy of the tales from Barry Cunningham, JK Rowling’s first editor.

Wizardly clues

Mr Cunningham was one of only six people to receive an original Beedle, created, illustrated and hand-written by JK Rowling, as a personal gift from the author last year.

The seventh copy was given to CHLG for the charity to auction, and was acquired by Amazon for a winning bid of £1.95m/$4m in December 2007.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is the volume of wizarding fairytales left to Hermione Granger by Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the seventh and final book of the Harry Potter series.

The tales contained clues that were to prove crucial to Harry Potter’s final mission to destroy Lord Voldemort but only one of the five stories, ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’, was recounted in the book.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, published by CHLG on 4 December, will reveal the four remaining tales, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, alongside notes by Professor Dumbledore and illustrations by JK Rowling.

The charity the Children’s High Level Group was co-founded by JK Rowling and Emma Nicholson MEP.

Net proceeds from the book will fund the charity’s work with vulnerable children across Eastern Europe.

To celebrate the launch, children across the UK and those visiting from further afield, will get the opportunity to see one of only seven original copies on display at the National Library of Scotland.

The month-long Beedle display will take place from 5 December to 4 January

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