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The field guide, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

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When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences
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eng
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107 pages
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Sequel: The seeing stone
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9780689859366
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The field guide
Title
The field guide
Statement of responsibility
Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
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eng
Summary
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences
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Award
  • Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (North Dakota) for Intermediate Books, 2005.
  • Surrey Book of the Year Award (British Columbia), 2005.
Review
  • /* Starred Review */ This snappy story, the inaugural title in The Spiderwick Chronicles, sets the scene for the next four books planned. The authors introduce the three Grace siblings—13-year-old Mallory and nine-year-old twins Jared and Simon—and their recently divorced mother, who move into their great-aunt's dilapidated Victorian house. The paper-over-board volume opens to a Victorian-style design; a full-page, framed pen-and-ink scene appears opposite each chapter opening (with clever headings such as "In Which There Are Answers, Though Not Necessarily to the Right Questions"). After Jared hears scuttling inside the walls, Mallory pokes a broom through a kitchen wall and discovers a "nest" filled with unusual trinkets—a doll's head, tiny lead soldiers, bits of tattered fabric—plus one of her own fencing medals. Jared encounters more mystery when a dumbwaiter carries him to a doorless upstairs library. Here he spies a yellowing riddle in rhyme (reproduced on a glossy insert), which leads him to the attic and ultimately to Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You —a handbook to the faerie realm. Often in trouble, Jared gets the blame for some odd occurrences (e.g., Mallory awakens to find her hair tied in knots around her headboard, Simon's tadpoles are frozen into ice cubes, etc.). Appealing characters, well-measured suspense and an inviting package will lure readers on to The Seeing Stone (-85937-6) , due the same month. Youngsters may well find themselves glancing over their shoulders as they eagerly follow the events. Ages 6-10. (May) --Staff (Reviewed April 14, 2003) (Publishers Weekly, vol 250, issue 15, p70)
  • /* Starred Review */ Unexplained things are happening in the eerie Victorian heap that is new home to the Grace family. Rustlings in the decrepit walls lead the three children, to discover and destroy the nest of a Brownie and to locate, in Arthur Spiderwick's secret library, his Field Guide to the Fantastical World, which details the habits of faeries. The infuriated Brownie exacts retribution in hateful ways: knotting Mallory's long hair to her headboard and freezing animal-loving Simon's tadpoles into ice cubes. The children mollify the Brownie by building him another home, but against his warnings that harm will result, keep the Field Guide. Book 2 (The Seeing Stone, 0-689-95937-6) steps up the peril: the unheeded warnings lead to Simon's kidnapping by a roving gang of goblins. His siblings gain The Sight by means of a small stone lens (and efficacious goblin spit rubbed into the eyes) and succeed in rescuing him. Cleverly marketed as too dangerous to read, handsomely designed, and extravagantly illustrated this packs quite a punch. Readers who are too young to read Harry Potter independently will find these have just the right amount of menace laced with appealing humor and are blessed with crisp pacing and, of course, DiTerlizzi's enticingly Gothic illustrations. (Fiction. 7-11) (Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2003)
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120078
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DiTerlizzi, Tony
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
no index present
Intended audience
  • Ages 7 and up
  • 600L
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MG
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fiction
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  • 0
  • 4
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4.2
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Black, Holly
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True
Series statement
Spiderwick chronicles
Series volume
1
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Accelerated Reader
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  • Fairies
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Single-parent families
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juvenile
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The field guide, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
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Sequel: The seeing stone
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Dimensions
18 cm.
Extent
107 pages
Isbn
9780689859366
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2002013524
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rdamedia
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  • n
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9780689859366
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illustrations, map
Label
The field guide, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
Publication
Copyright
Note
Sequel: The seeing stone
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  • volume
  • sheet
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  • nc
  • nb
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  • rdacarrier
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  • text
  • cartographic image
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  • txt
  • cri
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  • rdacontent
Dimensions
18 cm.
Extent
107 pages
Isbn
9780689859366
Lccn
2002013524
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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  • n
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9780689859366
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illustrations, map

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