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ONE night, at the start of the first lockdown, author J.K. Rowling had an inspired idea. Best known for her seven Harry Potter books, there was another story she'd written to read to her own family ten years ago which had never been published. So she decided to dust off the manuscript and launch a competition for children stuck at home to draw the illustrations. Here, in an exclusive extract from The Ickabog, which is out tomorrow, we get a glimpse of this new imaginary world and see some of the winning drawings. Set in the kingdom of Cornucopia, the hapless monarch King Fred hopes to impress by going in search of the mythical monster the Ickabog ... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
