Notebook for Fantastical Observations (Spiderwick Chronicles Series)
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Overview
Can't get enough of the faerie world? Well, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, the brave souls that helped Mallory, Simon, and Jared Grace bring their amazing adventures to a worldwide audience, are here to help you find yours!
Presenting The Spiderwick Chronicles Notebook for Fantastical Observations. This handy interactive storybook features seventeen mini-adventures collected from faerie watchers around the globe as well as plenty of pages for readers to add their own stories, maps, charts, notes, lists, diagrams, and drawings. So get ready to embark on your own faerie adventure — all you need is an observant eye and an open mind. Just keep your wits about you. After all... their world is closer than you think....
Synopsis
Can't get enough of the faerie world? Well, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, the brave souls that helped Mallory, Simon, and Jared Grace bring their amazing adventures to a worldwide audience, are here to help you find yours!
Presenting The Spiderwick Chronicles Notebook for Fantastical Observations. This handy interactive storybook features seventeen mini-adventures collected from faerie watchers around the globe as well as plenty of pages for readers to add their own stories, maps, charts, notes, lists, diagrams, and drawings. So get ready to embark on your own faerie adventure — all you need is an observant eye and an open mind. Just keep your wits about you. After all... their world is closer than you think....
Publishers Weekly
A trio of titles acts as guides to deepen the impact of popular series. The Spiderwick Notebook for Fantastic Observations by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black comes in an embossed paper-over-board package that emulates well-worn leatherbound scientific notebooks. Along with descriptions of the offbeat characters that people the Spiderwick Chronicles (Brownies, Dragons, Griffins, etc.) are plenty of lined pages with occasional prompts to help budding observers of fantastical phenomenon record their findings. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly
A trio of titles acts as guides to deepen the impact of popular series. The Spiderwick Notebook for Fantastic Observations by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black comes in an embossed paper-over-board package that emulates well-worn leatherbound scientific notebooks. Along with descriptions of the offbeat characters that people the Spiderwick Chronicles (Brownies, Dragons, Griffins, etc.) are plenty of lined pages with occasional prompts to help budding observers of fantastical phenomenon record their findings. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.Children's Literature
Mallory, Simon, and Jared Grace enter a magical world that feeds into any young reader's fantasy. Many twists and turns add suspension for any adventure-seeking youth. Now these individuals can create their own supernatural journey into the world of faeries through the book. Diterlizzi and Black create simple, miniature adventure stories that include dragons, brownies, hobgoblins, goblins, and other mystical creatures. The three-to-four page tales lead right into pages of journal writing that allow the reader to chronicle their own testimonies to these stories. They get to use graphic organizers in a fun and exciting way that organizes them as they write down their ideas. Later, they can go back and review what they put down and add even more to their thoughts. The creators designed places where a budding artist can incorporate drawings into this world of the imagination. Without reading the adventures of the Grace children, the book offers little to its audience. The readers need prior knowledge and background to understand what they could invest in this story to profit the most. Short glimpses of the creatures give no understanding as to how to view them, whereas reading about them through the eyes of the Grace children give the creatures more dimension and make them less fearful or strange. The concept of using literary practices to engage young readers into a higher level of thinking and understanding is awesome. How ingenious to use list-making, the short essay, and actual drawings to help readers go beyond the normal grasp of what lies outside our world. 2005, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Ages 10 to 14.—Julia Beiker