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Tony DiTerlizzi

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in Los Angeles, The United States

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http://www.diterlizzi.com/

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Children's, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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Arthur Rackham, Jim Henson, Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien, Maurice Sen ...more

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June 2010

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#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 R ...more

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Tony DiTerlizzi's Blog

BEHIND-THE-BOOK: “The Spider & The Fly”

The Spider & The Fly was published 22 years ago, on October 1st. Creating this award-winning, bestselling picture book was a journey as twisting and winding as Mr. Spider’s web.

Simon & Schuster editor, Kevin Lewis (above), planned on publishing a picture book adaptation of Mary Howitt’s classic 1829 poem with hopes of approaching Caldecott-award-winning artist, Fred Marcellino, to illustra

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Tony DiTerlizzi’s books

Average rating: 3.97 · 377,136 ratings · 20,506 reviews · 130 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #1) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 93,727 ratings — published 2003 — 123 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #2) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 48,387 ratings — published 2003 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wrath of Mulgarath (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #5) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 42,391 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #4) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 42,289 ratings — published 2004 — 99 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucinda's Secret (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #3) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 41,093 ratings — published 2003 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spiderwick Chronicles Box Set (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #1-5) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author/Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 14,715 ratings — published 2004 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Search for WondLa (The Search for WondLa, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 13,986 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nixie's Song (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, #1) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 12,699 ratings — published 2007 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Giant Problem (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, #2) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 8,285 ratings — published 2008 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 6,438 ratings — published 2004 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Tony DiTerlizzi

The Spiderwick Chronicles (5 books)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator),

Holly Black (Goodreads Author)

3.95 avg rating — 288,004 ratings

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles (3 books)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator),

Holly Black (Goodreads Author)

3.81 avg rating — 27,415 ratings

The Search for WondLa (3 books)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author)

4.18 avg rating — 23,938 ratings

The Spiderwick Chronicles - Companion Books (4 books)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator),

Holly Black (Goodreads Author)

4.24 avg rating — 11,710 ratings

Kenny & the Dragon (2 books)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author)

3.98 avg rating — 6,275 ratings

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Tony DiTerlizzi wrote a new blog post BEHIND-THE-BOOK: “The Spider & The Fly” The Spider & The Fly was published 22 years ago, on October 1st. Creating this award-winning, bestselling picture book was a journey as twisting and Read more of this blog post »
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Quotes by Tony DiTerlizzi (?)

“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

tags: insignificance, thought, universe

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“Never abandon imagination”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure

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“The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

tags: answer, puzzle, question

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Polls

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).

Avempartha by Michael J. Sullivan

36 votes, 29.3%

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

19 votes, 15.4%

The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan

16 votes, 13.0%

Sheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon

14 votes, 11.4%

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

9 votes, 7.3%

The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

7 votes, 5.7%

Son of Avonar by Carol Berg

7 votes, 5.7%

The Stormcaller by Tom Lloyd

6 votes, 4.9%

Green Rider by Kristen Britain

6 votes, 4.9%

Dreams of the Ringed Vale by Robert Fanney

2 votes, 1.6%

The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi

1 vote, 0.8%

123 total votes

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“Never abandon imagination”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure

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message 4: by Darlene

Oct 24, 2012 07:17PM

Thanks for making me your friend online here. I have read some of your work and loved it.

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message 3: by Dax

Jun 02, 2012 01:34AM

Hi Tony. Please try to come to the Edinburgh Book Festival, I'd love to meet you and have my books signed! It's a big event and all the big names come to it :D

You should come! It'll be fun! :D

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message 2: by P.J.

Sep 06, 2011 07:43AM