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The field guide

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	DiTerlizzi, Tony
Other Authors:	Black, Holly
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003.
Series:	The Spiderwick chronicles ; #01
Subjects:	Fairies > Juvenile fiction. Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction. Single-parent families > Juvenile fiction.
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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.
Physical Description:	107 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
ISBN:	0689859368 9781442486928 (pbk.)
Author Notes:	Tony DiTerlizzi was born in Los Angeles, California on September 6, 1969. He received a degree in graphic design from the Florida School of the Arts and the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in 1992. He spent six years working as a freelancer for TSR, the publisher of Dungeons and Dragons. His first picture book, Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-this-World Moon Pie Adventure was published in 2000. He won the University of Chicago's Zena Sutherland Book Award for Ted and a Caldecott Honor in 2003 for The Spider and the Fly. He has written and illustrated numerous books including Adventure of Meno, G is for One Gzonk!, Kenny and the Dragon, and A Hero for Wondla. He met author Holly Black during a magazine interview on his work for Dungeons and Dragons. Together, they created two series: The Spiderwick Chronicles and Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles. In 2008, a live action adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles was made by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. (Bowker Author Biography)