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To be in with a chance of winning one of these fabulous prizes, courtesy of Simon & Schuster, just e-mail me and tell me the names of the three Grace children. UK Residents
only. You could win a boxed set of all five of the Spiderwick Chronicles (first name out of the hat) or one of ten copies of the first novel in the sequel series, THE NIXIE'S SONG! Closing date 31st January 2008. You'll find reviews of all six of these terrific books on the children's page...

Cast: Michael Kahn, Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Mark Waters
Producer: Mark Canton, Albie Hecht, Ellen
Goldsmith-Vein, Damon
Ross
Writer: John Sayles, David Berenbaum, Brent Forrester, Holly Black
Official Site: http://www.SpiderwickChronicles.com/
Release: Friday March 21 2008
Distributor: Paramount
The Spiderwick Chronicles - soon to be a major movie (February)
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Seeing Stone
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: Lucinda's Secret
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Ironwood Tree
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wrath of Mulgarath
Beyond the
Spiderwick Chronicles
- The Nixie's Song: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
- A Giant Problem: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
- The Wind And The Wisps: Beyond the Spiderwick
Chronicles
Accompanying Books
- Arthur Spiderwick's Notebook of Fantastical
Observations
- Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical
World Around You
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: Care and Feeding of Sprites
Characters
Human
- Jared Grace-Nine
years old, short-tempered and adventurous, he's the one who discovers
Arthur Spiderwick's illustrated field guide in a secret room of the house.
While the books follow the adventures of all three of the Grace children,
the point of view
is his.
- Simon Grace-
Jared's twin brother, gentle in nature and fond of animals; he befriends a
wounded Griffin.
- Mallory Grace-
Thirteen years old, she likes the sport of fencing and is on her school team. In fact,
she even used her sword to help defend her and her brothers from some of
magical creatures found around the Spiderwick Estate. Mallory had many
adventures with her brothers including the defeat of Mulgarath, which
prevented him from taking over the world.
- Lucinda Spiderwick- Lucinda is the daughter of
Arthur Spiderwick and the great aunt to the Grace children. She is the
cousin of Helen Grace's mother. When her father disappeared and her sister
left home she was in charge of the house. Soon fairies came and tried to
get her to give them the guide. She didn't know where it was, so the
fairies attacked her, breaking her back. Her sister thought she was hurting
herself and she was put in a clinic for the insane. She can only eat
fairie food because of a cruel joke played by the fairies. A few friendly
sprites now take care of her by giving her fairy food while she is in the
asylum.
- Arthur Spiderwick- The creator of the field guide to
faries. He disappeared after trying to fool the elves.
- Helen Grace - The mother of the Grace children.
- Richard Grace - Helen Grace's former husband until a
divorce. Later appears to be Mulgarath in
disguise.
Faeries
- Thimbletack - the house's brownie. A brownie is something that does
the housework. But if it is angry, it becomes a boggart, a mischievous creature.
- The Not-Jared Grace - a fake Jared who is Mulgarath
as we find out in Book 4: The Ironwood Tree.
- River Troll - only appears in Book 2: The Seeing Stone. He is just a
plain troll that lives underneath local rivers.
- The Korting - the ruler of the dwarves. In Book 4: The Ironwood Tree, he tricks Jared and Simon into being held prisoner.
- Mulgarath - an evil ogre, the villain.
Hogsqueal,
one of Mulgarath's goblins that is actually a hobgoblin. Hogsqueal is an anti-hero. As goblins don't have teeth, they
substitute broken glass for them; Hogsqueal replaces them for children's teeth,
claming that he's the Tooth Faery.
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