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Detailed explanation-1: -On the website, Rowling explains that The Ickabog began as a bedtime story she told her two youngest children when they were small. (They’re now teenagers.) She thought about publishing it, but put it aside to write her Cormoran Strike mystery series for adults and to pursue other projects.

Detailed explanation-2: -And that is how the Harry Potter author decided to put it out as a serialized book online. She thought it was a good move as she had written it as a read-aloud book, perhaps because of the way she read it to her own kids when they were younger. “But it’s suitable for 7-9 year olds to read to themselves, ” she wrote.