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Over 18,000 entries poured in from children aged seven to 12 based in India, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
What is so special about JK Rowling’s The Ickabog? The book a bedtime story for Rowling’s younger children has been a decade in the making. The writer, like many creative parents, would make up chapters to read to her kids.
But unlike her peers, Rowling decided to gift the story to a larger audience during the lockdown in the form of a free online series. Besides, she offered her young readers a chance to collaborate with their favourite author. Stuck at home for a larger part of 2020, kids worldwide welcomed ‘The Ickabog Illustration Competition’.