Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: otherwise known as the book that proves that your five-year-old fears about monsters under the bed (and in the forest, and in the garden, and in the lake) w...
Narrator Point of View
This one's a tiny bit tricky, since there are a couple of different voices at play in this book. The main one is the author's. That's Newt Scamander—he's the one telling us all about his life, hi...
Genre
Like the rest of the books in the Harry Potter series, Fantastic Beasts fits pretty neatly into the Fantasy genre—when Newt's talking about what to do when you've been stung by a Billywig you kno...
What's Up With the Title?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them kind of says it all. This book is going to tell us about all kinds of different fantastic beasts and magical creatures. It's also going to explain to us wher...
What's Up With the Ending?
Since the last half of the book is really an A-Z guide to fantastic beasts, the book really just ends at the end of the alphabet. So, we stop at the last entry—the Yeti—and that's it.Why is tha...
Tough-o-Meter
Okay, we're not saying the writing in this book is particularly tough to grasp (it's geared towards kids, after all), but the format can get a little difficult at times. After all, encyclopedias an...