How to Read J.K. Rowling's New Chapter Book for Free - Lifehacker

Rowling pulled a literal box out of her literal attic a few weeks ago in order to literally dust off a draft of a book she wrote many years ago while still in the midst of writing the Harry Potter series.

Now, as a coronavirus era gift to children (and adults) everywhere, she is releasing the book, called The Ickabog, for free online, chapter by chapter.

These would be the same (now much bigger) children she’d read the story aloud to years ago, while she was writing it, she says:.

The story lends itself well to a serial release, she says, because it was written primarily as a read-aloud book, shaped largely from the way she read it to her own children.