Have you ever taken a walk through the woods but can't stop checking behind you? Did you feel like you were being watched, or that the woods were speaking to you? If you've ever had

This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about the Nixies. Guardians of freshwater pools and streams, nixies, (also called naiads and nixes) are bound to the body of water in which they dwell. They are most commonly spotted alone and can be identified by the liquid continuously streaming from their hair and clothes as well as the greenish sheen of their skin. Nixies are amphibious and, unlike mermaids, they have legs rather than a tail. Nixies

Care and Feeding of Sprites is a book written by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi accompaning the Spiderwick Chronicles and Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. As the name suggests, the book's subject is how to keep a Sprite as a pet. Letter from Simon Grace Explanation of Terms and Images Used in This Book The Magnificent Sprite Anatomy of a Sprite Selecting Your Sprite Obtaining Your Sprite What's Not a Sprite Sexing Your Sprite Housing Your Sprit

Care and Feeding of Sprites is a book written by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi accompaning the Spiderwick Chronicles and Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. As the name suggests, the book's subject is how to keep a Sprite as a pet. Letter from Simon Grace Explanation of Terms and Images Used in This Book The Magnificent Sprite Anatomy of a Sprite Selecting Your Sprite Obtaining Your Sprite What's Not a Sprite Sexing Your Sprite Housing Your Sprit

This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Trolls. Trolls are afflicted with a ravenous and never-ending hunger that leads them to devour whole flocks of livestock. In particular they have a taste for sheep, but they will eat whatever they can catch. Trolls can survive extreme weather conditions and therefore tend to settle as far as possible from human settlements. Nocturnal by necessity since sunlight will turn them instantly to stone, t

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Care and Feeding of Sprites is a book written by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi accompaning the Spiderwick Chronicles and Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. As the name suggests, the book's subject is how to keep a Sprite as a pet. Letter from Simon Grace Explanation of Terms and Images Used in This Book The Magnificent Sprite Anatomy of a Sprite Selecting Your Sprite Obtaining Your Sprite What's Not a Sprite Sexing Your Sprite Housing Your Sprit

Elves (family: Circulifestidae) are a species of powerful, humanoid, woodland-dwelling faerie. While Elves enjoy pastimes such as feasting and merrymaking, they are temperamental, but also wise and dignified. Elves are beautiful and slender in appearance, and their clothing, skin, and hair is subject to seasonal change. Elves organize themselves under regional monarchies, and seem to be of such a status that they can command the respect even of "lesser" faeries. "Elves are capricious by nature,

Elves (family: Circulifestidae) are a species of powerful, humanoid, woodland-dwelling faerie. While Elves enjoy pastimes such as feasting and merrymaking, they are temperamental, but also wise and dignified. Elves are beautiful and slender in appearance, and their clothing, skin, and hair is subject to seasonal change. Elves organize themselves under regional monarchies, and seem to be of such a status that they can command the respect even of "lesser" faeries. "Elves are capricious by nature,

Care and Feeding of Sprites is a book written by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi accompaning the Spiderwick Chronicles and Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. As the name suggests, the book's subject is how to keep a Sprite as a pet. Letter from Simon Grace Explanation of Terms and Images Used in This Book The Magnificent Sprite Anatomy of a Sprite Selecting Your Sprite Obtaining Your Sprite What's Not a Sprite Sexing Your Sprite Housing Your Sprit

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Care and Feeding of Sprites is a book written by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi accompaning the Spiderwick Chronicles and Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. As the name suggests, the book's subject is how to keep a Sprite as a pet. Letter from Simon Grace Explanation of Terms and Images Used in This Book The Magnificent Sprite Anatomy of a Sprite Selecting Your Sprite Obtaining Your Sprite What's Not a Sprite Sexing Your Sprite Housing Your Sprit

This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Sprites. Dazzling in colour and about the size of large insects, sprites have glistening membranous wings. In fact, they are often confused with exotic insects or flowers at first glance. Considered by many to be the most common type of faerie, sprites prefer to live in deep woods and make their homes high in the branches of trees. They particularly love to live in forests inhabited by treefolk an

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This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Sprites. Dazzling in colour and about the size of large insects, sprites have glistening membranous wings. In fact, they are often confused with exotic insects or flowers at first glance. Considered by many to be the most common type of faerie, sprites prefer to live in deep woods and make their homes high in the branches of trees. They particularly love to live in forests inhabited by treefolk an

Elves (family: Circulifestidae) are a species of powerful, humanoid, woodland-dwelling faerie. While Elves enjoy pastimes such as feasting and merrymaking, they are temperamental, but also wise and dignified. Elves are beautiful and slender in appearance, and their clothing, skin, and hair is subject to seasonal change. Elves organize themselves under regional monarchies, and seem to be of such a status that they can command the respect even of "lesser" faeries. "Elves are capricious by nature,

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This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Sprites. Dazzling in colour and about the size of large insects, sprites have glistening membranous wings. In fact, they are often confused with exotic insects or flowers at first glance. Considered by many to be the most common type of faerie, sprites prefer to live in deep woods and make their homes high in the branches of trees. They particularly love to live in forests inhabited by treefolk an

Care and Feeding of Sprites is a book written by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi accompaning the Spiderwick Chronicles and Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. As the name suggests, the book's subject is how to keep a Sprite as a pet. Letter from Simon Grace Explanation of Terms and Images Used in This Book The Magnificent Sprite Anatomy of a Sprite Selecting Your Sprite Obtaining Your Sprite What's Not a Sprite Sexing Your Sprite Housing Your Sprit