The Field Guide
Author: Holly Black
Author: Tony DiTerlizzi
Book 1 in the Spiderwick Chronicles series
Pages: 128
Published: 2003
Age: 7+
Beware of reading 'The Spiderwick Chronicles'! The faeries will use all their power to stop you from reading these books!
Mallory, Simon and Jared are getting acquainted with their new home...but they find many unexpected things! It all starts when Jared Grace finds their great uncle's book, "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastic World Around You." and realises that they are not alone in their new house.
Now the Grace kids want to tell their story but the faeries will do everything to stop them...It's up to you to spread the word about their discovery. But heed their warnings, wear some red, turn your clothes inside out - all anti-faerie devices - and get ready to enter a world that you never knew existed...It's closer than you think!
Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (2005)
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About the Spiderwick Chronicles Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Field Guide(2003)
- 2.The Seeing Stone(2003)
- 3.Lucinda's Secret(2003)
- 4.The Ironwood Tree(2004)
- 5.The Wrath of Mulgarath(2004)
- +A Grand Tour of the Enchanted World, Navigated by Thimbletack(2007)
- +Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You(2005)
- +Care and Feeding of Sprites(2006)
- +Notebook for Fantastical Observations(2005)
Reading age: 7+ years
This series should be read in order.
Five captivating books! One thrilling adventure!
The Grace children—nine-year-old twins, Jared and Simon, and their thirteen-year-old sister, Mallory—move with their mother into their uncle's decrepit house, 'Spiderwick Estate'. Soon the children encounter mysterious goings on: Mallory’s hair gets mysteriously knotted to the headboard of her bed; Simon’s tadpoles are frozen into an ice-cube tray. The house and yard are teeming with faeries, ogres, brownies, griffins, trolls and goblins!
The children discover an ancient hand-written book with information on faeries, hidden inside a chest in the attic, and befriend an excitable brownie named Thimbletack. So starts their magical adventure in a world of creatures they never knew existed!