A Giant Problem (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles) by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black, and Andrew McCarthy

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A Giant Problem (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles)
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Updated on 12-28-2008.

Features

Reading level: Ages 9-12

Audio CD: 2 pages

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (September 16, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0743574699

ISBN-13: 978-0743574693

Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces ()

Product Description
Talk about out of the frying pan, into the fire! I was pretty sure that my freaky stepsister and that freaky field guide of hers would ruin my life. But now it looks like they're going to ruin all of Florida, too! Okay, maybe that's not fair. Maybe all these stupid giants would be waking up anyway, but if it wasn't for her and that book, I'd be home playing video games and this would be someone else's giant problem!

About the Author
Tony DiTerlizzi is the author and illustrator of Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure as well as the Zena Sutherland Award-winning Ted. In 2003 his brilliantly cinematic version of Mary Howitt's classic, The Spider and the Fly, received stellar reviews, earned Tony his second Zena Sutherland Award, and was honored as a Caldecott Honor Book. His most recent picture book is G Is for One Gzonk! He and his wife, Angela, reside with their pug, Goblin, in Amherst, Massachusetts. They have no sprites. They know better. Visit Tony on the World Wide Web at www.diterlizzi.com.

Holly Black spent her early years in a decaying Victorian mansion where her mother fed her a steady diet of ghost stories and books about faeries. Her first book, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, was an ALA Top Ten Book for Teens, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, and has been translated into twelve languages. Her second teen novel, Valiant, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Locus Magazine Recommended Read, and a recipient of the Andre Norton Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Visit Holly at www.hollyblack.com.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: A Giant Problem (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles) (Hardcover) I loved the original SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES. I devoured the whole set of five books within the same day. At the end of THE WRATH OF MULGARATH, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi had hinted that there might be more to the Spiderwick story, and that definitely made me excited. A GIANT PROBLEM is now book two in the new BEYOND THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES series, and I must say that it's taken until this book to really make me enjoy these further adventures. The story picks up immediately from book number one, and I had to go glance back through THE NIXIE'S SONG to remember different plot details. Pretty much, Nick and Laurie are off on further adventures to stop the coming onslaught of giants destroying by fire the whole of the state of Florida. A daunting task for two kids and a blind old man named Noseeum Jack. I had been hoping all along through the first book and in beginning this second one that the story would grow beyond stopping giants from randomly destroying things. Yes, the problem seemed large, but just not enough for me -- especially after the original five books. That's why I was pleasantly surprised and chilled to come to the twist ending of A GIANT PROBLEM. It took the whole series to a new height, and I am extremely excited to get my hands on book number three, which I won't even tell the title of since it holds a bit of the secret. The writing is as usual superb, and the illustrations dazzling in that throwback style that DiTerlizzi is so brilliant at. Just looking at his drawings sucks the reader into another world. My only complaint is that I had to wait so long for book number two. I really hope that we don't have to wait another year before the final installment.

A Giant Problem (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles)
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Available from Amazon
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Updated on 12-28-2008.