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''The Spiderwick Chronicles'' is a series of children's books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into Spiderwick Estate and discover a field guide, written by their great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick, detailing a world of [[The Fair Folk|faeries]] that they never knew existed. ▼
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▲'''''The Spiderwick Chronicles''''' is a series of children's books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into Spiderwick Estate and discover a field guide, written by their great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick, detailing a world of [[The Fair Folk|faeries]] that they never knew existed.
It consists of the following books:
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The original series was adapted into a [[Film of the Book|film]] in 2008. It omitted the elves, dwarves and dragons in the books and altered much of the ending.
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* [[All There in the Manual]]
* [[All Trolls Are Different]]
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* [[Bluff the Impostor]]
* [[Broken Masquerade]]
* [[Call
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Hogsqueal.
* [[Clockwork Creature]]: Dwarves have a passion for building these, wanting creatures as long lasting as they are.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[Cool Old Guy|Jack]], who [[Jack the Giant Killer|kills giants]].
* [[Missing Mom]]: Nick's mom died prior to the beginning of ''Beyond''.
* [[Mix
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Fighting the Giants in the second series resulted in the Wyrms being able to run rampant.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Mulgarath's dragons are serpentine, multilegged and venomous. The Hydra is numerous wryms combined like a [[Nightmare Fuel|rat king]], rather than a single creature with numerous heads.
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* [[Our Gryphons Are Different]]: Byron follows the typical classical gryphon body design, but the head is quite different, having a slender beak with teeth/tooth like serrations and ears more similar to those of lions than of the typical griffin ears. The movie made him a regular gryphon though.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Chapter 7 of The Nixie's Song.
* [[Rhymes
* [[See
* [[Shapeshifter Guilt Trip]]: {{spoiler|Mulgarath takes the form of the kids' dad to try to trick them into giving him the book.}} Not quite a straight example, as {{spoiler|they don't know it's him}}.
* [[
* [[Storming the Castle]]: In the books. The movie has the fight arriving on the doorsteps of the house.
* [[Taking the Kids]]
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Nick Nolte, who plays Mulgarath in human form, had previously starred in another movie with [[Hulk (
* [[Angel Face, Demon Face]]: Thimbletack is normally a brownie, which is a small, pink little thing. He turns into a more muscular, green, mini-troll like thing when he's mad.
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The film uses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoFcudPpCKc "Checkmate"] by Yuugin as its theme song in Japan.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Hogsqueal and his appetite for birds. {{spoiler|It gets dropped on Mulgarath's head like a ten-ton [[Anvil
* [[Brooklyn Rage]]: The "New Yorkers are tough" variant. When preparing to [[Hold the Line]] at the end of the movie, Jared gives his mother two kitchen knives to fight with.
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* [[Car Fu]]
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* [[Fake American]]
* [[Hold the Line]]: The Grace family defends their house against Mulgarath and the Goblins.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Alphas|Dr. Rosen]] is a Researcher of Magic.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Freddy Highmore played both Jared and his identical twin Simon in the film version. A [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMOA]] for the actor, as their personalities are complete opposites.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Thimbletack loves his honey, and Hogsqueal loves his birds.
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