"Spiderwick Chronicles" audio book on CD by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

Unabridged. 5 CDs. Read by Mark Hamill.

 

"It all started with a mysterious letter left at a tiny bookstore for authors Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. Its closing lines : 'We just want people to know about this. The stuff that has happened to us could happen to anyone.' "

 

"Little could they imagine the remarkable adventure that awaited them as they followed Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace and a strange old book into a world filled with elves, goblins, dwarves, trolls, and a fantastical menagerie of other creatures. the oddest part is in entering the world, the didn't leave this one!"

 

Five captivating audiobooks for Young Adults. One thrilling adventure. The Spiderwick Chronicles:

 

The Field Game - The Grace Kids -- twins Jared and Simon and their older sister, Mallory -- aren't all that impressed with the ramshackle old mansion their mother moves them to when their decidedly kooky Great Aunt Lucinda is sent to an asylum. But a series of mysterious events within the house leads the three young Graces to an old book filled with hand drawn pictures of all kinds fantiatic creatures. Jared believes the book holds the key to all the freaky goings on (for which he hs been blamed).

 

The Seeing Stone - The Grace kids are just beginning to get used to Aunt Lucindas's strange old mansion when Simon suddenly disappears. At first, Mallory thinks that her younger brother Simon is pulling some kind of prank. But when it becomes obvious that he has been snatched by goblins, Jared and his sister have to rely on the help of a mischevious house boggart, a nasty bridge troll, and a loud mouthed hobgoblin to get him back!

 

Lucinda's Secret - Things at the Spiderwick estate ar getting completely out of hand. If being atttacked by a band of marauding goblins and amost eaten by a bridge troll wasn't enough, now Jared isbeing harrassed by Thimbletack, the house boggart, and Simon hass a very hungry griffin recuperating in the carriage house. Mallory is convinced that the only way to stop the madness is to chuck the Guide. But this is not an option. Only one person can help solve this mystery --- their crazy old Aunt Lucinda."

 

The Ironwood Tree - "Why is the entire faeire world so eager to get their hands on Spiderwick's Guide? And will the Grace kids be left alone now that the Guide has mysteriously disappeared? To make matters even worse, now Mallory has vanished and something foul in the water is killing off all the plants and animals for miles around. And the faeirie world's abuzz with the news that a creature with plans to rule the world has offered them a gift to join with him --- he's given them a queen!

 

The Wrath of Mulgarath - After narrowly escaping the dwarven quarry, a battered and bruised Jared, Simon, and Mallory return home to find it has been ransacked by the evil Mulgarath, and that he's made off with "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You" along with something far more precious to the Grace kids -- their mother. With the help of Thimbletack, Hogsqueal, and Byron, the Grace kids have to figure out how to rescue Arthur Spiderwick from the domain of elves so that he can help them stop Mulgarath and defeat his goblin army before it's too late.