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.