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    Notebook for Fantastical Observations
    Notebook for Fantastical Observations
    Notebook for Fantastical Observations
    Ebook194 pages43 minutes

    Notebook for Fantastical Observations

    By Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

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    In the final installment of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Nick and Laurie had thought they solved their giant problems when they drove all the giants into the sea. But now, the Grace kids have come back to tell them they may have more trouble coming their way!

    It turns out the giants control the population of Hydra, a dragon like creature that is creating sinkholes all over Florida. But with the mermaids refusing to return the giants to the shore, the nixie's still missing and the threat of a destroyed Florida drawing closer, the kids have to take matters in their own hands.

    Will Nick and Laurie be able to stop the destruction they unwittingly caused? Can a new giant hunter help save the day? Can Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide help them out of this or are they on their own?

    Find out in the final conclusion of the Spiderwick saga!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateSep 8, 2009
    ISBN9781442403598
    Notebook for Fantastical Observations
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    Holly Black

    Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of speculative and fantasy novels, short stories, and comics. She has been a finalist for an Eisner and a Lodestar Award, and the recipient of the Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. She has sold over twenty-six million books worldwide, and her work has been translated into over thirty languages and adapted for film. She currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret library. Visit her at BlackHolly.com.

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      What a delightful surprise of a book, probably overlooked by many as an inferior spin off of a familiar series. In the children's book world, when a series is popular enough to inspire a movie, a proliferation of side material is churned out for profit. Readers may have assumed that this was the case here, but that is far from the truth. This is a fantastic book that prompts creative writing and illustrating, and is right in line with the whimsical world of Spiderwick that inspired it. The book consists of a series of sections, each beginning with the profile of a fantastical creature, a small story about that faerie purportedly written by a child and sent in to the authors as a true tale, and then several pages of prompts to draw or write, inspired by the faerie creature or the anecdote. These prompts are varied and fun, with some that are similar in style but with different choices, and some that are original and unlike any other prompts I have seen before. For example, several of the pages feature an oval meant to be filled in with the picture of a creature, and a prompt to guide readers in drawing one. Beneath the oval is a question, followed by a series of check marks. Although the format is the same, the question and choices are always different. One question asked what would happen to the creature when it is hit by sunlight, with a variety of witty choices such as turning to stone, melting, and pouting. While these prompts show repetition, although cleverly altered to be each one unique, some of the prompts are completely distinct. One page had a replica of a baseball diamond, with blank lines for each of the positions, and asked the reader to fill in the names of faerie creatures to create their dream baseball team. Another page asked readers to design the board for a game called Keep Away From the Troll, and another asks readers to draw an ad for a knocker's stone listening service. The writing prompts are great fun, too. Some call on readers to create lists: things I cut open to learn about, promises I never should have made, promises I will keep forever, and so on. Other writing prompts persuade the reader to write stories or poems.

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    Notebook for Fantastical Observations - Holly Black

    THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES

    NOTEBOOK for FANTASTICAL OBSERVATIONS

    T. DiTERLIZZI and H. BLACK

    Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers

    New York London Toronto Sydney

    SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

    An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

    1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020

    www.SimonandSchuster.com

    This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

    Copyright © 2005 by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

    All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

    SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

    is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    Book design by Michael Nelson

    The text for this book is set in Rackham Italic.

    The illustrations for this book are rendered in pen and ink.

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1

    CIP data for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

    ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-0345-1

    ISBN-10: 1-4169-0345-3

    eISBN-13: 978-1-442-40359-8

    Additional thanks to Michael Nelson for his extraordinary assistance in developing the Notebook for Fantastical Observations’ activities.

    For all writers, artists, and readers

    — Tony and Holly

    Tony DiTerlizzi is the illustrator of the Caldecott Honor–winning The Spider and the Fly as well as the author and illustrator of the Zena Sutherland Award–winning Ted. He and his wife, Angela, reside with their pug, Goblin, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Visit Tony on the World Wide Web at www.diterlizzi.com.

    Holly Black is the author of Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, which the American Library Association selected as a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults as well as for the YALSA Teens’ Top Ten Booklist. Holly lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband, Theo. Visit Holly on the Web at www.blackholly.com.

    NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS

    Dear Readers,

    When Tony and I first heard the story of the Grace children, we thought that their experiences were unusual. Since then, however, children and adults alike have contacted us with their encounters with faerie. A few of them are presented in this book along with some exercises that we hope will help you investigate potential faerie activity where you live.

    Above all, please remember to be careful. While some faeries are helpful, many are tricksy, and others can be dangerous.

    Sincerely,

    and

    "To protect the house and those inside is MY duty, Guide or no Guide."

    FROM BOOK 5: THE WRATH OF MULGARATH

    BROWNIES

    I admit I’m a slob. I throw my socks and underwear on the floor. I kick the covers off my bed and sleep on the bare mattress. My hair sticks up from my head like a bunch of crabgrass. I never clean up any of my toys. If something gets broken because I stepped on it, then I just try to avoid that area. Sometimes I forget, but usually there are enough clothes on top that the broken toy parts don’t hurt my feet that bad. But no matter how messy I am, there is always someone messier than me.

    My parents don’t understand how I got to be this way. My room used to be neat, my hair combed and my clothes folded. That was when Skifflewhim was my friend. He’s really little, with big

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