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Published Jan 2011
128 pages
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Publication Information
In 2001, J.K. Rowling brought the textbook used by Harry, Ron and Hermione to life in a 128 page small format book with 80% of the cover price of each book donated to Comic Relief. Sales from this, and the companion volume, Quidditch Through the Ages, had raised over £17 million (~US$26m) as of 2009:
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.
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Joanne Kathleen Rowling (pronounced rolling) was born on July 31st, 1965 in
Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. Her sister, Di, was born a little
under 2 years later. Rowling can remember telling stories from early on
and writing down her first story when she was 5 or 6 years old - about a rabbit
called Rabbit who got the measles and was visited by friends including a giant
bee called Miss Bee.
She moved house twice while growing up. The first was from Yate, just
outside Bristol, to Winterbourne - also close to Bristol. In Winterbourne
she was friends with a brother and sister whose surname was Potter. She
says she always liked the name, and preferred it to her own because the children
always made annoying jokes about rolling pins!
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Link to J.K. Rowling's Website
Name Pronunciation
J.K. Rowling: rolling
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