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Spiderwick fans will adore this gorgeous guidebook to the fantastical creatures featured in Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi's spectacular series. The superdeluxe, lavishly illustrated "field guide" features 142 information-packed pages, 41 full-colour plates, 6 spectatular gatefolds, 6 watercolour landscapes, scores of black-and-white and colour sketches, and enough information to satisfy even the most demanding faerie enthusiast. Not only will readers learn all about the 14 fantastical creatures featured in the series, but they'll be delighted and astonished by an additional 15 creatures featured in this elaborate volume--including mermaids, gargoyles, and more. And if that weren't enough, we've included dozens of snippets from Arthur Spiderwick's personal journal--information that links the Guide specifically to the Spiderwick Chronicles--as well as cameos from a few of the series' favorite characters.
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Grade 3-6–This field guide purports to be a copy of Arthur Spiderwicks sketches and investigations into the beings and beasties of the Invisible World–the brownies, boggarts, kelpies, and other creatures that populate the stories. The beautiful illustrations in gouache and pencil, seemingly modeled after Audubons work in Birds of America, are printed as if they were real century-old artworks that have left their shadowy imprints on the opposite pages. The descriptions are bits of Spiderwicks hard-learned lore, many apparently in his own handwriting, that make the art all the richer. Fantasy readers will love immersing themselves in the lore of the hidden–those things that only they, and people who are like them, can see. Field Guide will be pored over by anyone, of any age, who believes in sprites, phookas, and nixies.–Walter Minkel, New York Public Library
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gorgeous children's book,
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This review is from: Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (Hardcover)
If you have read the Spiderwick series (especially both series), then this book will be full of familiar faces. But even if you haven't, this is a wonderful children's book. It deals with faerie creatures that live all around us, but that we generally don't see/notice. Most of the major creatures from myth and legend (Western myth that is) are represented in this book. Each creature gets one to three pages of write up accompanied by at least one full page illustration. The illustrations are really well done, and very different from most conventional depictions of the creatures in question. Much more, zoological if I could pen an adjective. Several of the creatures have fold-out double-page spreads, and most have multiple drawings.The book is written as a field guide, so there's lots of side-notes throughout the book. The fictional author treats his subjects like an amateur naturalist would treat natural subjects. Documenting them, observing them, and drawing them (the book is set in the early 20th Century I think). The creatures are broadly separated into elemental categories (earth, air, water, and night), and they cover a range of creatures from friendly, to mischievous, to dangerous. The bottom line is that this is a really fun book, full of great pictures, and very interesting descriptions. The language level at times is a little high, but nothing a parent couldn't translate to younger children. The book certainly doesn't require knowledge of the Spiderwick series, but there are little insider references to it throughout. Overall, I highly recommend this book for any child with an imagination (that should be all of them).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Wonderfully done,
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This review is from: Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (Hardcover)
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 hundreds of illustrations, with fold-out pages and flip-up pages for even larger illustrations. Each creature's main illustrations list its scale. With lots of side notes and addendums, this is a wonderful book that the young and young at heart can return to many times.The sections are: Around the House and Yard: Brownies Boggarts Changelings Pixies Salamanders Stray Sod In Fields and Forests: Cockatrices Elves Leprechauns Manticores Sprites Treefolk Unicorns In Lakes, Streams and the Sea: Kelpies Merfolk Nixies Sea Serpents Trolls In the Hills and Mountains: Dwarves Giants Goblins Hobgoblins Knockers Ogres In the Sky: Dragons Griffins Phoenixes Outside at Night: Banshees Gargoyles Phookas Will-o-the-Wisps This illustrated guide is amazing. I know that I will read it again, and plan on reading it to my children many times over the next few years.
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Pretty book!,
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This review is from: Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (Hardcover)
Very beautiful book with lots stunning images, sketches and drawings. Perfect for a fan of Spiderwick's Chronicles or a futur artist!
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