The Ironwood Tree
Author: Holly Black
Author: Tony DiTerlizzi
Book 4 in the Spiderwick Chronicles series
Pages: 128
Published: 2004
Age: 7+
First a pack of vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Spiderwick's Guide? And will the Grace children be left alone, now that the Guide has mysteriously disappeared? Don't count on it!
At school, someone is running around pretending to be Jared, and it's not Simon. To make matters even worse, now Mallory has disappeared and something foul in the water is killing off all the plants and animals for miles around. Clues point to the old abandoned quarry, just outside of town. Dwarves have taken over an abandoned mine there. And the faerie world's abuzz with the news that a creature with plans to rule the world has offered them a gift to join with him - he's given them a queen...
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!