2 stars This book has been on my shelf for over ten years (having picked it out of a Scholastics book catalog sometime in my youth solely because the edition I own has a cover with Ken dolls falling through a blue backdrop), I finally got around to reading it. It’s pretty much everything you’d…

4 stars A quick, fun read. While each entry is rather short and there are minimal pictures of the creatures, this is still a very good read. The making of the book is also interesting since it was written to benefit Comic Relief, giving you all the more reason to read it. A must read…

2 stars A very cute book containing mythology, popular media, and fun activities, ranging in topic from spells and illusions to predicting the future. A fun book for children interested in wizardary.

3 stars A quick, fun read. The tone of this book is very conversational. It’s rambling and random and is often interrupted by semi-related tangents. But that makes it no less of a fun journey. This book is like talking to a close friend who happens to be quite witty and also famous.The jokes range…

3 stars I spent my whole childhood having never read this book solely because I owned a VHS of a film version, which was horribly dark and, to my young mind, violent and scary. I was finally brave enough to tackle the book.Overall, the book was good. There were many interesting stories throughout the book…

4 stars I was very excited to read this book, and while I believe it was very well written, I can’t help but be a little disappointed.The thing I hated about the first book was the whole beginning was so slow. But once it got going, I was hooked. This one was much better in…

4 stars This is an amazing set of stories. I will admit that I did not have very high expectations for this book, but it definitely surpassed them all by far.The stories are well written and interesting. I also enjoyed Dumbledore’s analyses and stories after each tale. It was also fun to be able to…

4 stars A great continuation of the series. While the characters get a little irriating as they often seem almost hopelessly clueless as to what to do next (at one point, Kree,the bird has to advise them because they couldn’t figure out a simple solution for themselves), but the writing is good and I love…

3 stars A very informative and humorous read.Instead of focusing on vocabulary, this book gives a lot of conversational phrases to use in different situations. This made reading it much more interesting. Wex also includes many personal stories, which helps to make the text easier to read and comprehend. The book is broken up into…

4 stars I received this book from Booklikes in exchange for an honest review. Like many of the other reviewers for this book, I liked it but have no idea what to make of it.At first, I just wasn’t into it. Ben’s ideas were too vaguely philosophical to interest me and I thought he was…