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Sat 12 Dec 2008THE WIZARD CASTS HIS FINAL SPELL
JK ROWLING'S NEW BOOK:Robert Dunbarreviews The Tales of Beedle the Bardby JK Rowling (Children's High Level Group/Bloomsbury, £6.99)
With worldwide sales of her seven Harry Potternovels now amounting to more than 400 million copies, only the most curmudgeonly muggles will begrudge JK Rowling her success or want to deny the positive effect she has had on children's reading habits. Equally, however, we are all entitled to our views on the literary merits of the books themselves and to speculate as to the direction her talents may take now that the boy wizard has cast his final spell.
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