People withdyslexiacan now enjoy the Wizarding World of Harry Potter without contend . AsMetroreports , Bloomsbury Publishing has released dyslexia - friendly edition ofHarry Pottercompanion books , includingFantastic animate being and Where to see Them , The Tales of Beedle the Bard , andQuidditch Through the Ages . As for the originalHarry Potterseries , design to create similar edition for thosebooksare “ yet to be announced , ” accord toBloomsbury .
These illustrated editions feature larger text , tinct newspaper to reduce spotlight , and navigational aids to steer the referee . For tyke and adults with dyslexia , letter of the alphabet on a Thomas Nelson Page mayappearto be backwards , upside down , jumbled , bunched up , or stand out around . Larger text and certain typeface have been found to reduce these symptoms and make reading easier . “ Reading words with very small letters may essay hard either because the missive are punishing to identify or because it is hard to define where they appear in the word , ” the author of a 2005studywrote .
The books are also suited for hoi polloi with sight impairments — they’re approved by the UK - based Royal National Institute of Blind People and the British Dyslexia Association . In addition to being inclusive and user - friendly , they ’re also beautiful editions , with jacket artistic creation byJonny Duddleand illustration byTomislav Tomic .
Unfortunately , they ’re only available in the UK because Bloomsbury does not publishHarry Potterbooks in the U.S. Stateside , the books are release by Scholastic , which released twentieth day of remembrance variant last year .
If you are in the UK and want to snag some copies of the dyslexia editions , they can be purchasedonlinefor £ 18 ( about $ 24 ) to each one .
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