Lois H. Gresh - The Fans Guide to The Spiderwick Chronicles: Unauthorized Fun with Fairies, Ogres, Brownies, Boggarts, and More!
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For fans of The Spiderwick Chronicles comes the ultimate unauthorized guide to the facts behind Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Blacks world. This new book by Lois Gresh takes young readers beyond the creepy and captivating fairy world of The Spiderwick Chronicles and answers the burning questions kids have been aching to know. With illustrations, quizzes, facts, and mythology, The Fans Guide to The Spiderwick Chronicles will provide hours of fun.
Digging deep into history, legend, and lore, this magical guide helps fans enjoy their favorite series as they never have before. This is the perfect gift for that young reader who cant get enough of the series or wants to find out what the excitement is all about.
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Boggart (Fairy). According to The Field Guide, a boggart is a brownie who goes nuts andstarts doing really bad things. In real life fairy lore, boggarts are ill-tempered, mean, ugly-as-sin brownies. They completely destroy everything they dont like. They are shape-shifters, taking many different forms. Boggarts in human form are far more dangerous than boggarts who appear in other forms. Boggarts play tricks, and they also scare and hurt people.
Brownie (Fairy). According to The Field Guide, a brownie is a tiny man who lives in someones house. In real fairy lore, a house brownie is a shaggy, very short man. He wears a ragged suit and small cap. The brownie does indeed adopt a house, and he emerges at night to do chores or cause problems. Brownies, according to real-life tradition, do indeed like bowls of milk, just like Thimbletack in Spiderwick. It is said that brownies are easily offended by what humans do. For example, if a person leaves too much milk in a bowl for the household brownie,the brownie may get really upset and leave the house forever.
Calamity. This is a disaster, a big mess. It is an event that causes loss and lasting distress. For example, Jareds mother always blames him for the calamities, or big messy disasters, that happen in their house, in Aunt Lucindas hospital room, and at Mallorys fencing match.
Deflect. To deflect something means to avoid it or push it away, such as when Simon uses a parry to deflect Mallorys sword.
Dilapidated. Broken down and in ruins, such as the carriage house in the Graces yard. In fact, their entire house is somewhat dilapidated.
Dragon. A dragon is a monster that looks like a huge reptile with lions claws, a snake tail, and sometimes wings. In Spiderwick, the dragon iswhat is commonly referred to as a wyrm dragon (well, its commonly referred to as a wyrm dragon by people who actually spend lots of time thinking about dragons). A wyrm dragon has no wings, and his red scaled body is snakelike. His head looks like a cross between a dragons head and a horses head. Sometimes, he has horns. He always has fangs. He breathes fire and is pure evil. He lives in smelly, stinking, rotting places such as swamps and trash dumps.
Dumbwaiter . A dumbwaiter is a bucket-type device that hauls Jared up and down between the floors of the house. In olden days, in real life, it was used to transport food, dishes, and other things from the kitchen to the upstairs rooms.
Dwarf. Dwarves are small and look like misshapen humans. They usually have long, gray beards and look really old. They are also miners,according to legend, so their role in Spiderwick conforms to what we know about dwarves. Rumors say that dwarves are toads during the day. If the dwarves are hit by sunlight, they turn to stone. According to folklore, dwarves turn metal into beautiful but dangerous artifacts. These artifacts possess spells and curses.
Elf. Light Elves live high in the sky and are compassionate and kind. Dark Elves, on the other hand, live beneath the ground and are nasty creatures. According to standard fairy lore, elves are pretty tall compared to most fairies, who are so small we can barely see them. Elves stand from 410 to 58 or more. Theyre slim and delicate, with huge eyes of beautiful colors. The Spiderwick elves are probably Light Elves rather than Dark Elves.
Fairy. Fairies are tiny, imaginary creatures who look like humans and who possess magical powers.Theyre often clever and mischievous. As depicted in books and paintings, fairies are usually called good people, even though theyre also thought to be somewhat unruly and hard to control. In real life, as in The Spiderwick Chronicles, fairies are considered to be shape-shifters by those who believe in them. Fairies supposedly live in mounds (small hills). Time flows at a different pace in Fairyland than in our world. If you spend an hour in Fairyland and then return to our world, you suddenly might be ten years older.
Fencing. This is the sport of using a foil, pe, or saber in attack and defense maneuvers. Fencers in modern times practice and compete on strips that are called pistes.
Foil. Mallory probably uses a foil when she fences. A foil is one of three main types of swords used by fencers. It has a flexible blade and weighs about one pound.
Fools Gold. Similar in color to gold, this non-gold ore is often mistaken for the real thing. Fools gold is likely to be iron pyrite or muscovite (white mica).
Goblin. When Jared first sees goblins through his nose-clipped eyepiece, he thinks that they have faces like frogs and dead-white eyes. He describes them as green with bloated, hairless bodies, and with teeth that look like jagged glass and rocks. In real folklore, goblins are nasty little creatures who dwell in fairyland. Theyre ugly as sin, they steal anything they can get their claws on, and they like to lure people to certain death by dangling fairy fruits and other items in front of them. When standing, the top of a goblins head might reach your knee. He usually doesnt look like a frog, as in Spiderwick, but rather he appears as an old man with a long, gray beard. Goblins generally like children and give them presents and treats, but the goblinsdislike adults and tend to disrupt households by wrecking kitchens and furniture.
Griffin. These are huge mythical birds. Some stories say that griffins are part bird and part lion; others describe griffins that are mostly lions with eagles heads. When a griffin is mostly lion, it often doesnt even have wings. One thing most griffins have in common is that they are very large. Most of them have the head and wings of a bird, the body of a lion, and a snake tail. The griffin originally came from India, or so the stories say, where they made huge nests from gold that they found in the mountains. Griffins have the keen sight of eagles and the strength and courage of lions. This may explain why Byron, the Spiderwick griffin, is such a hero in the end when he fights off a dragon at the trash dump ogre lair.
Hobgoblin. Hobgoblins are closely related to brownies. They are usually drawn by artists aslooking like ugly, little elves. They help humans do household chores, just like their brownie cousins. Although hobgoblins share the goblins part of their names with the evil goblins, the two are quite different: hobgoblins are good-natured and kind, though easily offended by what humans do.
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