Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ WARNING, this rating is for the illustrated edition only ! I give the first edition 5 stars, so why does this edition only have 3 stars? Honestly, I was a bit disappointed, mainly because this was such a missed opportunity! We could have had an actual Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry book, a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them manual , this book falls short on that. Why? Because of the illustrations. Weather you like them or not is irrelevant, let's look at this from an objective stand point. Have you ever read a science book? Of course you have, we all have, in school. Now it's been a while for me, but one of the things I distinctly remember is that the anatomical aspects of people/animals/plants were all presented, schematically, in a certain way. It was something to aid the student in memorizing the parts that would undoubtedly be present in the following test. Have you read Harry Potter's first illustrated book? Turn to page 146, t...
