The Spiderwick Chronicles Profile
Spiderwick is a series of children's books by Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black. The story takes place in New England, United States, where nine-year-old twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory have moved to the decrepit Spiderwick Estate. They discover a field guide to Faeries, and quickly realize that the estate is infested with them. Some of the faeries are benign or even friendly, but many more of them are pesky or downright malicious. They discover many new creatures also.
Contents
1 Publications
1.1 Spiderwick Chronicles 1.2 Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles 1.3 Accompanying Books
2 Characters
2.1 Human
2.1.1 Major Human Characters 2.1.2 Minor Human Characters
2.2 Faeries
3 List of Faerie Species in Books 4 Movie 5 Video Game 6 External links 7 References
Publications
Spiderwick Chronicles
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
Accompanying Books
Arthur Spiderwick's Notebook for Fantastical Observations Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You The Spiderwick Chronicles: Care and Feeding of Sprites The Chronicles of Spiderwick: A Grand Tour of the Enchanted World, Navigated by Thimbletack
Characters
Human
Major Human Characters
Jared Grace - Nine years old, short-tempered and adventurous, Jared is 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, Mallory likes the sport of fencing and is on her school team, a skill which comes in handy defending her and her brothers from some of magical creatures found around the Spiderwick Estate. Mallory has many adventures with her brothers including the defeat of Mulgarath, which prevented him from taking over the world.
Minor Human Characters
Lucinda Spiderwick - Lucinda is the daughter of Arthur Spiderwick and the cousin of Helen Grace's mother, making her the Grace children's great aunt. 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 faerie food because of a cruel joke played by the faeries. A few friendly sprites now take care of her by giving her faerie food while she is in the asylum.
Arthur Spiderwick- The creator of the field guide to faeries. 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 Mulgarath tries to disgiuse as him.
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.
Mulgarath - an evil shape-shifting ogre, the villain.
The Not-Jared Grace - a fake Jared who is Mulgarath as we find out in The Ironwood Tree.
River Troll - only appears in Book 2: The Seeing Stone. He is just a plain troll that lives underneath local rivers. Jared makes a deal with the Troll so he won't eat them: let them cross and the 'tasty' goblins will follow.
The Korting - the ruler of the dwarves. In The Ironwood Tree, he tricks Jared and Simon into being held prisoner. It seems that he was good but was deceived into being evil.
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, claiming that he's the Tooth Faery. He helps out the children, but usually to his own advantage. He never calls the kids by name, but instead uses odd insults.
List of Faerie Species in Books
Brownie Boggart Goblin Sprite Troll Griffin Hobgoblin Stray Sod Phooka Elf Unicorn Dwarf Deep Cavern Knocker Ogre Salamander Dragon
Movie A theatrical movie based on the novels was released February 14th of 2008.
Actor Character
Sarah Bolger Mallory Grace
Freddie Highmore Jared & Simon Grace
David Strathairn Arthur Spiderwick
Andrew McCarthy Richard Grace
Mary Louise Parker Helen Grace
Seth Rogen Hogsqueal
Joan Plowright Aunt Lucinda
Martin Short Thimbletack/Boggart
Nick Nolte Mulgarath
Video Game A video game based on the film and book license has been announced. It is being published by Sierra Entertainment and developed by Stormfront Studios for release in February 2008.
External links
Spiderwick.com IMDB Profile
References
^ Gamasutra
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