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Tony DiTerlizzi
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September 06, 1969
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This year marked a decade of touring for my books (the first tour being for The Spider & the Fly back in the fall of 2002). And, though the travel hasn’t become less stressful, I still love coming to a bookstore, school or library and talking books. I can’t thank you all enough for making it all worth the while.
Each tour has a million magic moments packed into 2-3 weeks. I try to take as...
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The Search for WondLa (WondLa, #1)
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Kenny & the Dragon
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2008
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The Chronicles of Spiderwick: A Grand Tour of the Enchanted World, Navigated by Thimbletack
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) , Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 419 avg rating — 164 ratings
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2009
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Ted
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2001
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G Is for One Gzonk!: An Alpha-number-bet Book
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A Hero For WondLa (WondLa, #2)
420 avg rating — 83 ratings
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2012
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Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure
415 avg rating — 88 ratings
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2000
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The Spider and the Fly
by Mary Howitt, Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) 421 avg rating — 2563 ratings
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2002
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The Spiderwick Chronicles Box Set (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #1-5)
by Holly Black (Goodreads Author), Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) 390 avg rating — 3211 ratings
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2003
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October 2009,
Tony DiTerlizzi
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? TD: A dream come true. (Did it in four!) SS: What is your motto or maxim? TD: Never abandon imagination What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describe perfect happiness? TD: ..." ...More
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? TD: A dream come true. (Did it in four!) SS: What is your motto or maxim? TD: Never abandon imagination What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describe perfect happiness? TD: ..." ...More
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THE TWELVE GOONEY DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (Humor)
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A recollection of Christmas from 1979. This originally appeared in School Library Journal in December, 2010
I ROLL A 20 (Biographies & Memoirs)
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updated 23 mar. 13:36
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Tony DiTerlizzi recounts his post-graduate days from art school and breaking into illustrating for Dungeons & Dragons. This story originally appeared on John Schindehette's blog "Art Order" in 2010.
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This book, the Arthur Spiderwick Field guide, is lovingly restored and organized by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. The creatures from the fantastical world around us have been organized by habitat and then alphabetically. It has 28 plates and hu...
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This was even better than the first! I got into this one immediately and it was incredibly fast-paced. I wanted to keep reading just to see how it would all end up! As with the last book, the drawings were a great bonus. And the way it ended has l...
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| Handler's story of a broken high school romance was like a box delivered from my own past. Inside, next to the mixed tapes and John Hughes movie ticket stubs, would be artifacts reminding me of the growth gained during my dramatic years of teen love. | |
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| Lowry's gift is this contemporary dystopian tale from a world just next door to Bradbury's in "Fahrenheit 451". The poetic ending haunted me long after I put the book down. | |
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Prodigal Long Island parties with supercilious characters, highball-fueled excursions and surreptitious loves affairs. It's the Jazz Age, old sport! This is best served in your mid-twenties. I can't believe I first read this in high school... |
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| I was captivated by Bradbury's blazing vision of a media-controlled future matched with his smoldering character growth. Do you think "Nineteen-Eighty-Four" and "Brave New World" were among the first to be burned? | |
"yup...though I don't remember the film being too terribly great...
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| I decided to re-read this creepy oldie since I was only 14 when I first stepped foot into Tarker Mills, Maine. King's slow build through succinct storytelling still held this big kid entranced, especially when matched with Wrightson's grisly images....more | |
“Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa
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December and January Reads - Since we don't have a selection yet for December read, this poll will have TWO winners! The book with the highest number of votes will be the December read, and the book with the second highest number of votes will be the January read. (If there is a two-way tie, both books will get a month).
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