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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them : v. 1 : Fantastic Beasts / J.K. Rowling ; illustrations and design by Minalima.
"While attending the Magical Congress of the United States of America in 1926, Newt Scamander is pursued by the wizarding authorities when dangerous beasts and their habitats escape from his magical briefcase."--OCLC.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781338109061
- ISBN: 1338109065
- Physical Description: vii, 293 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed., November 2016.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2016.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | 5.3 Follett Library Resources. 5-8 Follett Library Resources. 5-8. |
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| Genre: | Fantasy drama. |
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| Allard Branch | JF ROW (Text) | 37842000685620 | Junior Fiction - English | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 2017 Fall
British Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in 1926 New York with a leather case full of magical beasts that get loose in the city; a sinister magical figure also emerges. The inclusion of stage directions from this 2016 film's screenplay offers further insight into characters' actions. Black-and-white decorative embellishments, some of magical creatures, provide a helpful pause between scenes. A cast and crew list is appended. Glos. Copyright 2017 Horn Book Guide Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2016 December #2
A handsomely packaged version of the dialogue and staging directions for the recently released film. Rowling has expanded her slim 2001 Harry Potter spinoff into a multiepisode storyline, and this is the first. Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in 1926 New York with a bagâmuch larger inside than outâfull of rare creatures. In short order, he not only allows several of them to escape, but falls afoul of the Magical Congress of the United States of America (the local equivalent of the Ministry of Magic). Mad escapades ensue, featuring wizardly duels and encounters with all sorts of exotic fauna from Occamies to Bowtruckles. The script presented here sticks closely to the screen version, but both the printed lines and the italicized stage directions add nuance and details that may elude even close viewers of the movie. Newt's walk, for instance, is described at the outset as conveying "an unselfconscious Keatonesque quality," and a later comment that "Occamies are choranaptyxic" invites more pondering than the live action allows. Also, rather than using images from the film, Rowling's rare and sketchy line drawings in the original edition have been replaced here with decorative swashes on every page and stylized animal forms, all done in elegantly calligraphic pen strokes. A glossary of film terms and partial lists of the film cast and crew are appended. Thin soup compared to a conventional prose narrativeâbut enough to carry readers along and to give them at least a sense of the characters and their milieu. (Fantasy script. 10-13) Copyright Kirkus 2016 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
