J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World: Magical Film Projections: Creatures

by Insight Editions (Compiler)

Overview

This enchanting book allows fans to project their favorite scenes from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them films at home with a flashlight.

Using black line illustrations on framed acetate pages, this enchanting book allows fans to project their favorite scenes from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them films at home with a flashlight.

Discover Dobby the house-elf, Buckbeak the Hippogriff, and other fascinating creatures from the wizarding world in this unique book. In a dark room, shine a light through the window on each page to project incredible scenes on the wall or ceiling. Read along and experience extraordinary moments from J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World like never before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763695859
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Series:	J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World Series
Pages:	16
Sales rank:	672,219
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

Editorial Reviews

08/01/2017
Gr 2–6—Published in a wave of renewed "Harry Potter" mania following the theatrical release of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, this unusual title features seven clear plastic "windows," six of which are illustrated with black line drawings of scenes from various "Harry Potter" books, accompanied by a short description of the scene and a few lines of dialogue. The seventh window is blank, and readers are encouraged to draw their own scene with a dry erase pen (not included). The book is spiral bound, and meant to be propped up so that the scenes can be projected onto a wall or the ceiling of a dimly lit room, using, according to the instructions, either the accompanying flashlight, a lamp, or a cell phone light. The flashlight included with the book does a very poor job of projecting the drawings—they appear dim and blurry; a cell phone flashlight works much better. When accomplished, viewers will see large images of Dobby the house elf, Buckbeak the Hippogriff, and Picket the Bowtruckle, among others. VERDICT This very slim volume doesn't bring anything new to the canon, and it's hard to see this media tie-in gimmick holding the attention of anyone, even die-hard fans, for very long.—Jenny Berggren, Longfellow Middle School, Berkeley, CA

School Library Journal

2017-05-01
Shining light through acetate windows brings six Wizarding World creatures, from Dobby the house-elf to Swooping Evil, to any darkened wall.That's the idea anyway—but as quickly comes apparent, neither the design nor the production of this blatant grab at spinoff dollars ensures that it will work. "Shine a light through the window on each page," suggest the vague instructions on a removable sleeve, "to project incredible scenes on the wall or ceiling." Similar directions on an inside leaf more accurately promise only "shadows." The forms that are printed on each clear plastic panel are hair-thin outlines with occasional black fill. Since they seem to require particularly exact movement of either page or hand-held light source in order to bring them into focus, the best that most viewers can hope for (in the absence of a classroom transparency projector) is a hazy monochrome smear. In thoroughly optimistic bids to catch fan attention for more than a nanosecond, each sheet comes with a snatch of relevant dialogue from one of the films ("Hagrid: Isn't he beautiful? Say hello to Buckbeak!") headed by a scene-setting rubric, both of which are hard to read under optimal, unlit operating conditions. A final unmarked window offers viewers a chance to make their own failed projections. Neither the dry-erase markers required for this last nor a light source are provided. Not even a "Lumos" spell can rescue this flop. (Novelty. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews