Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Some of the outfits were very easy to draw because the descriptions are quite detailed and evocative, such as Professor Trelawney’s or Umbridge’s. Others in my mind had been influenced by the films, so I had to really remember how I used to imagine them before the films were made, such as Hermione’s dress at the Yule Ball. At first, I set myself the challenge to make this entire spread using just three colours, but it soon became apparent I had to be more truthful to certain items of clothing, such as Ron’s maroon jumper. I loved drawing Dobby’s section on this. It was all a lot of fun to draw, actually! Věřím, že jste tuhle nádhernou encyklopedii zaznamenali a doufám, že pokud ji ještě nemáte doma, najdete ji pod stromečkem. We all get a little lost sometimes, and in the wizarding world, even more so than usual. Thankfully, the Almanac is here to help, and takes us on a few ‘unguided tours’ of key locations across the stories. Above, the Almanac artist Peter Goes has – rather brilliantly – made sense of the chaos that is Hogwarts castle, detailing its many floors and secret passages in this pièce de résistance. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.

The book will also be translated into 34 additional languages for publication around the world: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Complex), Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

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I have always done drawing and making picture books, from a very young age. I studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art. I love all sorts of illustrators, and I am especially drawn to vintage children’s books that use limited colours, such as those by Roger Duvoisin and Nathalie Parain. This dazzling gift book brings together beloved characters, unforgettable moments and iconic locations from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone all the way through to The Deathly Hallows. It's the ultimate magical miscellany, filled with facts and fun about the wizarding world, beautifully catalogued and brilliantly explored.

I am a huge fan of the Harry Potter books, and it wasn’t a hard decision to say yes to this one! I was amazed to be asked to show my own vision of this incredible world. Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. V tomto oficiálním průvodci zkrátka najdete vše, na co si jen vzpomenete. Je to kniha, ke které se budete vracet a vsadím se, že i při dalších listování tam najdete věci, kterých jste si předtím nevšimli.

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Tu su ,na kraju i kućne štetočine, zmajevi, projekti i čuveni Hagridovi ljubimci pa zatim još jedno otvaranje stranica knjige koje čine mapu Začarane šume do samih Fantastičnih zveri i Sovine pošte. How did you approach illustrating your sections of the book? Was illustrating the wizarding world difficult? The only official companion to the Harry Potter stories - the ultimate compendium of wizarding lists, charts, maps and all things magical!

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How did you become an illustrator? Have any other artists or illustrators particularly inspired you and your journey?

The sweets, 100%. It has probably scratched the itch of my entire childhood dreams to be able to illustrate the magical sweets in Harry Potter. Saznaćete više o Banditovoj mapi i svim profesorima i predmetima, timovima, klubovima a meni jedan od najslasnijih momenata staje u Hogvortsku biblioteku.I probably most identify with Ron, but I also enjoy the bits with characters you’re supposed to hate, like Aunt Marge and Umbridge.