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.
Key facts about The Field Guide
Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi wrote The Field Guide, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2003. The book has 142 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780689859410 to find the main one.
The Field Guide is book 1 of 8 in The Spiderwick Chronicles series. The series has 8 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Holly Black writes The Modern Faerie Tales, The Curse Workers and Magisterium, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our fantasy and romantic fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Thief of Night is the latest published Holly Black book on file, from 23 September 2025.
About Holly Black
Holly Black is an American author who has spent over two decades as one of the defining voices in young adult fantasy, moving between menacing faerie courts and other dark, richly imagined worlds. See every Holly Black book in 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