I enjoyed reading this collection. It has amazing imagry, the pictures are sensational. And the story is amazing. 2 of my boys adore it, and my youngest is anxious to read it himself.
This book is a very interresting fanasty book mystical creatures , very interesting storie line. I truly liked it. These authors are very imaginaritive.
it was good it has some words some parents might not like , for example crap
and there is some drama of there parents being devorced so it is a little unpositive
other then that the book was amazing the pictures were nice the storyline was good and id reccomend it for children 8-13
Spiderwick book 1 was pretty good, pretty short, and pretty... well thats already two pretties too much. The book was great.. blah.. blah.. blah... how much more is there to say?
Richly illustrated fantasy with topics to talk about.
Fine storytelling with wonderful illustrations. There is plenty to discuss about families, school violence and bad behaviour, and the main character's feelings of isolation. My third graders were surprised to hear "crappy" and "shut up" from a book I would read to them. I think it's fine for kids to read, provided there is discussion about the book's themes and appropriateness of what goes on in its pages.
My older kids loved the story, read them all one summer a few years ago when my boys were 8 and 12. HOWEVER, my 8 year old cat-loving daughter was screaming upset to her very soul when, in book 2, the heroes came upon the goblin camp and found them roasting something on a spit "that looked like a cat"...and then the drawing on the next page shows just that! I pre-read and skimmed over alot of the rest of that chapter, because she loves it otherwise, but i think i'm going to cover the cat on a spit with a well-placed drop of ink (it's a picture of a forest, with cages up in trees, and way down below is the camp of goblins and their fire...small cat but identifiable). she never wants anything to happen to cats, ever, and although it wasn't the cat they knew, it was a cat nonetheless.
"Language" refers to many, many instances of name-calling, between siblings, from creatures to humans and each other, etc.
funny that you can't recommend it for " x age and OLDER"...only x age and younger. I would say 9 and up...don't know what i'm going to replace tonight's story with, when i "LOSE" the book for a year!