Author:Holly Black Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0689859384 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
"Good music, bad sound quality."
"Much better than Golden Compass!"
"Same old Horner Re-Hash"
"Charming"
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Editorial Review:
Let the story of my niece and nephews be a warning. The more you know, the more danger you're in. And trust me, you don't want to meddle with the Little People. -- S.S.
One thrilling adventure -- The Spiderwick Chronicles!
Their world is closer than you think.
The Grace kids--13-year-old Mallory and 9-year-old twins Jared and Simon--get to catch their breath in the third installment of the Spiderwick Chronicles, as they visit their "crazy old" Aunt Lucinda for some help in deciding the fate of the troublesome Field Guide
Fresh from near-fatal goblin and troll attacks in the previous book (The Seeing Stone, the children are torn over whether to hang onto their long-lost great-great-uncle's book or to turn it over to the menacing faeries. Thimbletack--the house brownie who's transmogrified into an angry "boggart"--has lost his patience with the kids, and he starts subjecting Jared to increasingly nasty pranks. Hoping that Lucinda might know something about Uncle Arthur's fate (or at least have some advice on how to fend off the faeries), the three children talk their mom into a trip to the asylum for a visit--but there they learn their situation might be even more dangerous than they imagined. (And, as readers of the series know, the kids already thought they were in hot water.)
Holly Black doesn't dish up the action quite as fast as she did in the first two books, but Spiderwick fans won't be disappointed: We learn more Spiderwick family history, we get an ominous glimpse of events to come, and Tony DiTerlizzi introduces a few new faeries to the menagerie in his ever-evocative pen and ink--including a special treat, the Cheshire-esque phooka. ("You've lost your uncle! How careless.") Ages 6 to 10) --Paul Hughes
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Good music, bad sound quality. I've never been a big fan of Simon Rhodes as a recording engineer, and this score suffers from some bad mixing. It could've used a little more sharpness. As it is, it sounds flat. Other than that, the music is decent, though the blaring rip-off of "Casper's Lullaby" in some of the tracks is distracting.
Much better than Golden Compass! I found that movie to be very good. My wife and I enjoyed it very much. lot of action and it keeps moving along for the length of the movie.
Same old Horner Re-Hash Don't get me wrong, this music is beautiful, Horneresque, but sadly its the same Horner we have heard many times rehashing his old stuff trying to give it a new sound. He really didnt even try on this one. I was hoping for something new and inspired but didn't get it. Loved the movie anyway though.
Charming There's been nothing but trouble for the Grace children (Jared, Simon, and Mallory) since they found the book "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You". More than one monster wants the Guide and Simon and Mallory are eager to destroy it, but Jared isn't so sure that's a good idea, so they go to their Great Aunt Lucinda to see what she can tell them about the Guide. Lucinda will tell them some of her secrets and they will discover even more as they try to solve the mystery of the... more info
