They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of fairies that they never knew existed.

At first only Jared is interested, but strange and destructive things are happening around the house, and though their mother blames Jared, his siblings aren't so sure.The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The book is filled with details about faeries, boggarts, brownies, and the like, but these are not your Disney fairies - for the most part they are neither cute nor friendly. The kids follow clues that lead them to an old, handwritten and illustrated book, Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, which Thimbletack warns them is full of danger and not suitable for mortals. Their adventures destroy the nest of a brownie (house fairy) named Thimbletack, who takes out his rage on the kids and destroys the kitchen. On their first night, they discover a secret library, and later discover a more house secrets and passages. In THE FIELD GUIDE: SPIDERWICK CHRONCLES, BOOK 1, 9-year-old twins Jared and Simon and their 13-year-old sister Mallory move with their mother to a decaying Victorian house after their father leaves them. I would say 9 and up.don't know what i'm going to replace tonight's story with, when i 'LOSE' the book for a year! 'Language' refers to many, many instances of name-calling, between siblings, from creatures to humans and each other, etc.įunny that you can't recommend it for ' x age and OLDER'.only x age and younger. she never wants anything to happen to cats, ever, and although it wasn't the cat they knew, it was a cat nonetheless. HOWEVER, my 8 year old cat-loving daughter was screaming upset to her very soul when, in book 2, the heroes came upon the goblin camp and found them roasting something on a spit 'that looked like a cat'.and then the drawing on the next page shows just that! I pre-read and skimmed over alot of the rest of that chapter, because she loves it otherwise, but i think i'm going to cover the cat on a spit with a well-placed drop of ink (it's a picture of a forest, with cages up in trees, and way down below is the camp of goblins and their fire.small cat but identifiable). My older kids loved the story, read them all one summer a few years ago when my boys were 8 and 12.

The field guide by tony diterlizzi