The cover art for both versions of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince were released earlier this week. Above is the cover for the American edition and below are two articles, one covering the American version and the other the chidren’s edition for the rest of the world. The American market has a different publisher for the book and therefore different art. The other countries of the world will also have an adult version of the book with different cover art.

Kansas City Star — Children don’t need adult help to tell fiction from fact is a heart-felt defense of The Giver by Lois Lowry and all children’s literature that leads readers to question and learn. If you are as dismayed as I am by the recent rash of book bannings in schools, then you too need to read this.