Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Jackets Released

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is delighted to release the book jacket images for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K.Rowling, to be published on 21st July 2007. The cover illustration for the children’s edition is by Jason Cockcroft, who drew the cover illustrations for the previous two Harry Potter books: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The cover design for the adult edition is from a photograph by Michael Wildsmith, who has photographed all the adult edition jackets.

These covers will be used throughout the world on the English language editions excluding the USA. Scholastic US have also released their cover images of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In a joint venture with HNP, Bloomsbury will publish the children’s edition, adult edition, special edition, audio (read by Stephen Fry) and large print editions on 21st July 2007. The RNIB will publish the Braille edition simultaneously. The book jackets and all the pages will be printed on 100% Ancient Forest Friendly pulp, made from a mixture of FSC pulp and Post-Consumer Waste recycled pulp.