HARRY POTTER - THE CREATURE VAULT Hardcover – 28 October 2014

Great book and all the info of hogwarts creatures and HP worlds creatures

Got delivered much before the tentative date. Almost like the perfect timing!Brought my friend some smiles and a big surprise as well.THANKYOU.

I have to say, I just adore behind-the-scenes books for films, it seems like they are super exciting and give a really cool insight into how things are done creatively and digitally for the magical mayhem films like Harry Potter. This book focuses mostly on the characters from the films and seeing how prosthetics were made for some of them, some were digital, and many were a combination of both digital and crafted pieces.What I liked about this book was that it was largely focused on the images of the behind-the-scenes creature-crafting but there is some extra information from designers which tells the reader the logic of their decisions. You also often get little tidbits of information about the animals trained to work in the film and the numerous pieces that had to be crafted many times over because they could only be used once before they had to be destroyed.I would definitely recommend this series of books so far. I have read two of them so far and I have really enjoyed both and think that they are a great expansion of the Harry Potter film magic. 4*s overall :D

This is definitely a collector's edition only for huge HP fans. I got it as a birthday gift from a fellow potterhead. Initially I thought that it will have the details about the creatures in the book (something like additional information on pottermore) but it turned out to be something else. It has the details about only the creatures shown in the movies. The book gives you the glimpse of how they were designed, their different concept arts from various illustrators along with the film stills and pictures from sets. It also explains how they build the animatronics, maquettes, sculptures / life-size models and where they actually used a live dummy controlled by crew members.Every creature has a fact file as well with their basic details, total appearances in series and the name of actual creature artists who played the role. Obviously It's for specific type of readers who loves reading these additional information, for others it might get a bit boring. I think it's more of graphical attraction for such people rather than reading pleasure. I really like some of those illustrations. There are total 9 chapters, out of which 7 explain the 22 different creatures divided as below -Forest Dwellers Centaur, Unicorn, Acromantula, Hippogriff, ThestralLake Dwellers Merperson, GrindylowSky Dwellers Dragon, Cornish PixieTrespassers Troll, Giant, GnomeShape-Shifters Animagus, Boggart, WerewolfThe Working World Post Owl, House-Elf, Goblin, FluffyDark Forces Basilisk, Dementor, InferiusThen we have a chapter by the name of Companions, which has information about 11 different characters/creatures - Hedwig, Errol, Pigwidgeon, Scabbers, Crookshanks, Mrs. Norris, Fang, Trevor, Arnold, Fawkes, Nagini. Similarly there is a chapter dedicated to 6 different greenhouse plants/creatures as well. They are Devil's Snare, Mandrake, Whomping Willow, Mimbulus Mimbletonia, Venomous Tentacula, Dirigible Plum.There is a poster with selected 16 creatures inside the book plus an Eeylops Owl Emporium's brochure attached in Post Owl Chapter. Overall it's more of a collector's item than for general reading pleasure.