You all know I love me some Harry Potter books, but do we need to have every single idea actually made real? This book markets itself as a cinematic yearbook, taking readers through their first year at Hogwarts with a variety of activities to complete from drawing magical creatures to writing a howler. The concept itself isn’t terrible (what kid doesn’t like activity books and expanding a favoured created universe in their own style), but do we need half of the pages taken up by screencaps from the film? A few carefully placed graphics to guide readers would have been more than enough, since you know if readers are buying this book in the first place that they’re already experts on the Harry Potter Wizarding World… And for those of us who are collectors, the hardcover volume doesn’t exactly lend itself to the creative and slightly careless nature of regular activity books, so we’re pretty unlikely to actually mar its pages. ( )