Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Rowling wrote Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, along with Quidditch Through the Ages, as a supplement to the Harry Potter series. Profits from both books benefited the charity Comic Relief.

It is designed to be a reproduction of the textbook owned Harry Potter, first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It includes several handwritten notes and doodles by Harry, Ron and Hermione.

The textbook is written by magizoologist Newt Scamander. Rowling originally published the book under the pseudonym Newt Scamander without her name on the cover. Later additions were published under her name though.

The book is set out like a traditional academic textbook with a foreword, introductory notes and scholarly footnotes. The main part of the book is written similar to an encyclopaedia and features in alphabetical order 85 magical creatures from Acromantula to Yeti.

The foreword is written by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

The only downside is the book is not illustrated. It would have been interesting to have seen illustrations of the various magical creatures but I guess you will just have to use your imagination.

Reader reviewed by Blair

Fantastic Beast's and where to find them is not really a story with a plot and a climax and all of that, but it is supposed to be a reproduction of one of the textbooks used by Harry Potter and shared by Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter series. It is more or less a dictionary of all of the stange and fascinating creatures in the world of Harry Potter, from acromantula to yeti.

I thought that this book was very clever. It was interesting to learn about all of th made up creatures. I love ho there is fake writing throughout the book that is meant to look like Ron and Harry's writing. It is very funny. I would recomend this book to all Harry Potter fans.