{{Infobox | bodystyle = width:20em; | abovestyle = background:inherit; font-weight:bold; | labelstyle = background:inherit; white-space:nowrap; | above = <small>Harry Potter books</small>The Tales of Beedle the Bard | image = | caption = The cover of the UK public paperback edition. | label1 = Author | data1 = J. K. Rowling | label2 = Illustrator | data2 = J. K. Rowling | label3 = Genre | data3 = Fantasy | label4 = Auction date | data4 = 13 December 2007 (handmade edition) | label5 = Winning bid | data5 = £1.95 / US$3.98 / €2.28 million (Amazon.com) | label6 = Publisher | data6 = Children's High Level Group in association with Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | label7 = Publication date | data7 = 4 December 2008 (public edition) | label8 = Pages | data8 = Handmade edition: 157 Paperback edition: 110 Collector's edition: 180 }}The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book of children's stories by the author J. K. Rowling. There is a storybook of the same name mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book of the Harry Potter series. The book was originally produced in a limited edition of only seven copies, each handwritten and illustrated by J. K. Rowling. One of them was offered for auction through Sotheby's in late 2007 and was expected to sell for £50,000 (US$77,000, €69,000); ultimately it was bought for £1.95 million ($3 million, €2.7 million) by Amazon, making the selling price the highest achieved at auction for a modern literary manuscript. The money earned at the auction of the book was donated to The Children's Voice charity campaign. The book was published for the general public on 4 December 2008, with the proceeds going to the Children's High Level Group (renamed Lumos in 2010). In the Harry Potter series The Tales of Beedle the Bard first appeared as a fictional book in J. K. Rowling's 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final novel of the Harry Potter series. The book is bequeathed to Hermione Granger by Albus Dumbledore, former headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is described as a popular collection of Wizarding children's fairy tales, so that while Ron Weasley is familiar with the stories, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger had not previously heard of them due to their non-magical upbringing. The book Hermione receives in Dumbledore's will is a