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The Spiderwick Chronicles - Companion Books
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Notebook for Fantastical Observations
Can't get enough of the faerie world? Well, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, the brave souls who helped Mallory, Simon, and Jared Grace take their journey to a worldwide audience, are here to help you find your own adventure!
Presenting The Spiderwick Chronicles: Notebook for Fantastical Observations. This handy interactive storybook features fourteen mini-adventures collected from farie watchers as well as plenty of pages for readers to add their own stories, maps, charts, notes, lists, diagrams, and drawings. So get ready to embark on your own faerie adventure - all you need is an observant eye and an open mind. Just keep your wits about you. After all...
their world is closer than you think....
Presenting The Spiderwick Chronicles: Notebook for Fantastical Observations. This handy interactive storybook features fourteen mini-adventures collected from farie watchers as well as plenty of pages for readers to add their own stories, maps, charts, notes, lists, diagrams, and drawings. So get ready to embark on your own faerie adventure - all you need is an observant eye and an open mind. Just keep your wits about you. After all...
their world is closer than you think....
217 pages, Hardcover
First published May 31, 2005
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About the author
Tony DiTerlizzi
126 books2,197 followers#1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, Tony DiTerlizzi, has been creating children’s books for twenty years. From fanciful picture books like The Broken Ornament and The Spider & The Fly (a Caldecott Honor book), to chapter books like Kenny and The Dragon and The Search for WondLa, DiTerlizzi imbues his stories with rich imagination. With Holly Black, he created the middle-grade series, The Spiderwick Chronicles, which has sold over 20 million copies, been adapted into a feature film, and translated in over thirty countries. He teamed up with Lucasfilm to retell the original Star Wars trilogy as a picture book and his collaboration with celebrated author Mo Willems created the bestseller The Story of Diva & Flea. The Norman Rockwell museum’s retrospective, “Never Abandon Imagination”, featured artwork from the beginning of DiTerlizzi’s career as a contributing artist for Dungeons & Dragons and broke attendance records. He has been featured in Time magazine, USA Today, CNN, PBS, NPR the BBC and The Today Show.
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September 11, 2013
I wish I had this as a child
September 23, 2012
Ahh.. the advantage of having siblings in school. They haul books from their library then I get to read each one they pick.
This book's basically just a collection of stories from children who had encountered magical creatures before; and there's this note/analysis attached to each one of 'em (technically, it's about the creature's nature in a particular encounter). Also, this book contains some activities which you might find really nice. Too bad this was from my brother's library. Being a book-lover, I didn't act as a jerk and scribble demon faces on every page so yeah.
This book's basically just a collection of stories from children who had encountered magical creatures before; and there's this note/analysis attached to each one of 'em (technically, it's about the creature's nature in a particular encounter). Also, this book contains some activities which you might find really nice. Too bad this was from my brother's library. Being a book-lover, I didn't act as a jerk and scribble demon faces on every page so yeah.
July 12, 2010
Fun, I enjoyed being able to create my own spiderwick-style world.
February 2, 2014
it is so good it has a page where you can draw picture of a creature you saw.
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January 18, 2021I had to question if this was real or not when I was kid LOL
April 13, 2014
1. I got my copy of this book from the library so I didn't get the fun of getting to write and draw in it, but I loved the stories.
2. A lot of children have the Sight apparently.
3. I would seriously love this book when I was a kid.
4. Definitely buy this book if you love the series.
2. A lot of children have the Sight apparently.
3. I would seriously love this book when I was a kid.
4. Definitely buy this book if you love the series.
February 23, 2014
This is a kid's dream come true. All the incentives and space to let your imagination run free.
May 7, 2015
These illustrations are soo....sooo good. Only bad thing to say is that I wanted it to be a hundred pages longer.
August 28, 2015
I was so fun and I enjoy every part of it
January 5, 2023
This was the first book in the Spiderwick world I was disappointed with. I bought the eBook and cannot figure out why the publisher released an e-version of this book. It is intended to be a workbook. There are 14 chapters in this book, alphabetically named after the creatures encountered.
The sections are:
Brownies
Dragons
Dwarves
Elves
Goblins
Griffins
Hobgoblins
Knockers
Ogres
Phookas
Sprites
Stray Sod
Trolls
Unicorns
Each section has a story written by someone who has had an encounter with the Fantastical, followed by a short commentary by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. Then there are numerous activities to be completed. These includes writing your own encounters, making lists, drawing pictures and much much more. This workbook will be great fun for a child and provide entertainment again and again as they go back and add more notes to each section. But the eBook cannot even be printed out to allow these activities to be completed. If you're going to buy this book make sure you get the physical book. It will be entertaining and fun for children of all ages.
The sections are:
Brownies
Dragons
Dwarves
Elves
Goblins
Griffins
Hobgoblins
Knockers
Ogres
Phookas
Sprites
Stray Sod
Trolls
Unicorns
Each section has a story written by someone who has had an encounter with the Fantastical, followed by a short commentary by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. Then there are numerous activities to be completed. These includes writing your own encounters, making lists, drawing pictures and much much more. This workbook will be great fun for a child and provide entertainment again and again as they go back and add more notes to each section. But the eBook cannot even be printed out to allow these activities to be completed. If you're going to buy this book make sure you get the physical book. It will be entertaining and fun for children of all ages.
June 25, 2019
As a kid I have always wanted this journal type of book. As an adult I still don't own it, but I like this journal and it would have been so awesome to have this as a child. It's pretty, hardcover, and has space to write whatever you want! You can use it for observations, vacation, adventures, your thoughts, whatever your heart desires with space to draw any creatures you have seen. How cool!
June 9, 2019
So cool! I’m either going to make it a PDF version or buy it because it’s an awesome sketchbook prompt!
March 21, 2020
A book with fantastic stories which are in different categories. Go for it.
February 14, 2022
2 Thumbs up 👍👍
February 11, 2023
A great addition to any kids bookshelf, we took this camping for years.
May 3, 2012
This was the first book in the Spiderwick world I was disappointed with. I bought the eBook and cannot figure out why the publisher released an e-version of this book. It is intended to be a workbook. There are 14 chapters in this book, alphabetically named after the creatures encountered.
The sections are:
Brownies
Dragons
Dwarves
Elves
Goblins
Griffins
Hobgoblins
Knockers
Ogres
Phookas
Sprites
Stray Sod
Trolls
Unicorns
Each section has a story written by someone who has had an encounter with the Fantastical, followed by a short commentary by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. Then there are numerous activities to be completed. These includes writing your own encounters, making lists, drawing pictures and much much more. This workbook will be great fun for a child and provide entertainment again and again as they go back and add more notes to each section. But the eBook cannot even be printed out to allow these activities to be completed. If you're going to buy this book make sure you get the physical book. It will be entertaining and fun for children of all ages.
Read the review and with links to other reviews of books by the authors on my blog Book Reviews and More.
The sections are:
Brownies
Dragons
Dwarves
Elves
Goblins
Griffins
Hobgoblins
Knockers
Ogres
Phookas
Sprites
Stray Sod
Trolls
Unicorns
Each section has a story written by someone who has had an encounter with the Fantastical, followed by a short commentary by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. Then there are numerous activities to be completed. These includes writing your own encounters, making lists, drawing pictures and much much more. This workbook will be great fun for a child and provide entertainment again and again as they go back and add more notes to each section. But the eBook cannot even be printed out to allow these activities to be completed. If you're going to buy this book make sure you get the physical book. It will be entertaining and fun for children of all ages.
Read the review and with links to other reviews of books by the authors on my blog Book Reviews and More.
September 19, 2012
Really enjoyed it, read all five books in about a week! Much better than the film.
Tells the story of the hidden world of goblins, fairies and brownies and the man whom wrote a book about them a hundred years ago. Then three three children stumble upon this world.
Recommend it, but really easy read.
Tells the story of the hidden world of goblins, fairies and brownies and the man whom wrote a book about them a hundred years ago. Then three three children stumble upon this world.
Recommend it, but really easy read.
December 2, 2010
this book is about all the creaturs in spiderwick so it tells you all about where they live what they eat what there names are and if there bad or good. if you read this book or the cronicles read this book first because you will under stand the books beter and what there tlking about.
October 26, 2012
Read this 2 years ago so all I remember about this book is that it's just a compression of the actual notebook from the book series. It was an interesting read, I think there were blank pages to put your drawing and observation but I could be mistaken.
December 1, 2007
my friend is letting me barrow this book,and it is awsome
April 9, 2010
One of the stories in this book is of a 'monster in your bedroom' nature, and it totally freaked me, an adult, out.
October 3, 2008
this book is sort of for reading but more for writing in yourself. i own this one and are still trying to fill it out and i have had it for three years!!!
April 18, 2009
this was a fun addition to the series.
September 2, 2009
Really cool. Had alot of neat stuff.
May 27, 2010
this book is fun. I haven't written in it because I don't want to ruin it, but it does have a few short stories and other Spiderwick type information in it.
fun idea.
fun idea.
February 19, 2011
Very neat.
October 22, 2013
supplement to add to the classroom library with the original stories
August 9, 2011
While I am full grown adult I just couldn't resist purchasing this. I think I in fact had far more fun with it than the children did.
March 1, 2012
Seriously amusing... Personally, I adore the Phooka, and the Elves.
Trolls and Goblins freak me out.
Trolls and Goblins freak me out.
September 12, 2012
Exactly what it says on the box, no more, no less.
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