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        <title><![CDATA[J.K. Rowling conjured up a new children’s book, ‘The Ickabog’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>J.K. Rowling has good news for locked-down fans looking for a Dobby, er, hobby.</p><p>The &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1265252279348854787">announced Tuesday</a> that she has finished a new children&#8217;s book that she&#8217;s been working on sporadically since 2007&#8217;s &#8220;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.&#8221;</p><p>Called &#8220;The Ickabog,&#8221; the story is not a Potter continuation or spinoff, like &#8220;Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them&#8221; or &#8220;Quidditch Through the Ages,&#8221; but a separate tale Rowling used to read to her kids at bedtime.</p><p>&#8220;Over time I came to think of [&#8216;The Ickabog&#8217;] as just for my family,&#8221; she said on Twitter. &#8220;The manuscript went up into the attic, where it remained until a few weeks ago.&#8221;</p><p>The author continued: &#8220;Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve done a bit of rewriting and I&#8217;ve decided to publish [&#8216;The Ickabog&#8217;] for free online, so children on lockdown, or even those back at school during these strange, unsettling times, can read it or have it read to them.&#8221;</p><p>In typical Rowling style, it ain&#8217;t a pamphlet. She says that starting today at 8 p.m. EST, at least one new chapter will be released on a soon-to-be-unveiled website every weekday through July 10. &#8220;The Ickabog&#8221; will then be published in print and in e-book formats in November.</p><p>As for the plot, Rowling is keeping mum. However, the <strong>sometimes controversial</strong> writer insists present-day politics do not play in.</p><p>&#8220;&#8216;The Ickabog&#8217; is a story about truth and the abuse of power,&#8221; <strong>she said on her website</strong>. &#8220;To forestall one obvious question: the idea came to me well over a decade ago, so it isn&#8217;t intended to be read as a response to anything that&#8217;s happening in the world right now.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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