As featured in the first year set texts reading list in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extensive introduction to the magical beasts that exist in the magical, non-Muggle world. Some of the animals featured in the A-Z you will have already met in the existing Harry Potter books: for example Hippogriff, Flobberworm, Kappa - others you certainly won't: read on to find out exactly what a Chizpurfle is, or why one should always beware of the sinister Lethifold ...As Albus Dumbledore says in his introduction, this set text book by Newt Scamander has given the perfect grounding to many a Hogwarts student. It will be helpful to all Muggles out there too ...On reading the book you will also find that Harry, Ron and (in one instance) Hermione - couldn't resist grafittiing the book, and adding their own personal hand-written opinions.
I really enjoyed this expanded and illustrated version of Fantastic Beasts. I will say I wish that they would have included far more in here since it doesn't show every beast we know to exist thus far. Some of the illustrations I really liked and others were kind of misleading which is a bit distracting. For example, one beast is said to be the size of a large dog, but the image shows it towering over a town. I do appreciate the artist's rendition of the some of the animals, but it is a bit confusing if you already know what they supposedly look like.
I think if you were trying to pick between the original textbook version and this one (why not get both?) I would say this one is worth the extra price. It's far more interesting to flip through and retains some re-read value.
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