Book 9: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Book 9:Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Writer: J.K. Rowling (As “Newt Scamander”)
Genre: Young Adult//Fantasy
Number of pages: 42
Read This Year: 1785
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B
My Thoughts: There isn’t too much to say about this slender volume. J.K. Rowling wrote this book in 2001 (along with Quidditch Through the Ages) as a companion to her enormously popular Harry Potterseries, as well as to benefit the British charity Comic Relief (not related to the American charity of the same name). The book is presented as one of Harry’s textbooks, complete with notations and scribbles by himself and his friends. After a long and quiet amusing forward by “Albus Dumbledore,” the book presents an alphabetical listing of many of the magical beasts and creatures that inhabit Harry Potter’s world. The book is mostly played for fun, but it does offer a little more information about the creatures themselves and the history of Harry’s world, something any hardcore fan of the series will certainly appreciate. I really picked this book up again for the first time since buying it in 2001 as a warm-up for a planned re-read of the entire series prior to the release of the final book, and it was nice to get a little more detail as I started my reading.
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