A hand written and illustrated novel of fairytales written by J. K. Rowling sold for $4 Million at a London Auction. All money generated by the novel will be donated to The Children's Voice, a charity co-founded in 2005 by Rowling.
"The Tales of Beedle the Bard " are the latest creation by popular author J.K. Rowling who wrote the loved Harry Potter series.
"'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' is really a distillation of the themes found in the Harry Potter books, and writing it has been the most wonderful way to say goodbye to a world I have loved and lived in for 17 years," Rowling said
A copy handwritten and hand illustrated by Rowling herself, bound in leather with silver mounts, was auctioned off in London for a total of $4 Million.
All proceeds will be donated to The Children's Voice, a charity co-founded in 2005 by Rowling and Baroness Nicholson of the British House of Lords.
There was excitement in the room as the bids topped the $1 million dollar mark and ended at $4 million in a final bid by London art agent Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox.
Rowlings watched the auction from her home in Edinburgh, Scotland and expressed her joy in the successful auction that was originally expected to only generate $100,000.
This will mean so much to children in desperate need of help," she said in a statement. "It means Christmas has come early to me."
The Children's Voice campaigns for children's rights across Europe, especially in Eastern Europe, where many children and teenagers grow up in institutions, often in what many activists regard as unacceptable conditions.
Six other copies were given to people closely related to the Harry Potter novels.
