The Spiderwick Chronicles · Book 1
The Field Guide
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 142
- ISBN-13
- 9780689859410
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Field Guide is co-written by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, the book that opens The Spiderwick Chronicles series. Published in 2003 at 142 pages, it precedes The Seeing Stone, the next book in the reading order.
Its place in The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Field Guide is book 1 in the The Spiderwick Chronicles series. It is followed by The Seeing Stone. See the full The Spiderwick Chronicles reading order.
When the Grace children move into their late great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick's crumbling, secret-filled estate, the youngest, Jared, discovers a hidden library holding Arthur's life's work: a field guide to the real, dangerous faeries living in the woods around the house. Reading it awakens the attention of the creatures it describes -- brownies, goblins, ogres, a treacherous shapeshifting hobgoblin -- and the Grace siblings are pulled into a war to protect the guide, and themselves, from a faerie world that…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780689859410