#140 in Middle grade
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- 68
- Pages
- about 1 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is less a story than a prop from the wizarding world: a slim bestiary presented as Harry’s schoolbook, with notes scribbled in the margins by him and his friends. The creature entries are inventive and the marginal jokes the real charm, but there is no plot, and at under seventy pages it ends quickly. A treat for readers who already love the series, not a place to start.
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About the book
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2001 guide book written by British author J. K. Rowling about the magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe. The original version, illustrated by the author herself, purports to be Harry Potter's copy of the textbook of the same name mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first novel of the Harry Potter series. It includes several notes inside it supposedly handwritten by Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, detailing their own experiences with some of the beasts described, and including inside jokes relating to the original series.
Reading order · Hogwarts Library Books
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7.37.3 / 10 - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ThemThis book
7.47.4 / 10 - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 782 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 84% of the weight and the score stays at 7.4 — the Middle grade average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Books | 7.0 | 26 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 756 | 97% |
Frequently asked
What age is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sits on the Middle grade shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 8–12. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 68 pages — shorter than 99% of the ranked books in Middle grade.
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