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Tony DiTerlizzi

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in Los Angeles, The United States

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http://www.diterlizzi.com/

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Children's, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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#1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, Tony DiTerlizzi, has been creating children’s books for twenty years. From fanciful picture books like The Broken Ornament and The Spider & The Fly (a Caldecott Honor book), to chapter books like Kenny and The Dragon and The Search for WondLa, DiTerlizzi imbues his stories with rich imagination. With Holly Black, he created the middle-grade series, The Spiderwick Chronicles, which has sold over 20 million copies, been adapted into a feature film, and translated in over thirty countries. He teamed up with Lucasfilm to retell the original Star Wars trilogy as a picture book and his collaboration with celebrated author Mo Willems created the bestseller The Story of Diva & Flea. The Norman R ...more

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Tony DiTerlizzi's Blog

BEHIND-THE-BOOK: “The Spider & The Fly”

The Spider & The Fly was published 22 years ago, on October 1st. Creating this award-winning, bestselling picture book was a journey as twisting and winding as Mr. Spider’s web.

Simon & Schuster editor, Kevin Lewis (above), planned on publishing a picture book adaptation of Mary Howitt’s classic 1829 poem with hopes of approaching Caldecott-award-winning artist, Fred Marcellino, to illustra

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Tony DiTerlizzi’s books

Average rating: 3.97 · 376,654 ratings · 20,466 reviews · 128 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #1) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 93,622 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #2) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 48,320 ratings — published 2003 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wrath of Mulgarath (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #5) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 42,330 ratings — published 2004 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #4) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 42,237 ratings — published 2004 — 99 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucinda's Secret (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #3) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 41,034 ratings — published 2003 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spiderwick Chronicles Box Set (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #1-5) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author/Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 14,697 ratings — published 2004 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Search for WondLa (The Search for WondLa, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 13,972 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nixie's Song (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, #1) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 12,679 ratings — published 2007 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Giant Problem (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, #2) by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 8,272 ratings — published 2008 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You by Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 6,436 ratings — published 2004 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Tony DiTerlizzi

The Spiderwick Chronicles (5 books)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator),

Holly Black (Goodreads Author)

3.95 avg rating — 287,639 ratings

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles (3 books)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator),

Holly Black (Goodreads Author)

3.81 avg rating — 27,371 ratings

The Search for WondLa (3 books)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author)

4.18 avg rating — 23,913 ratings

The Spiderwick Chronicles - Companion Books (4 books)
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Tony DiTerlizzi (Goodreads Author) (Author & Illustrator),

Holly Black (Goodreads Author)

4.24 avg rating — 11,703 ratings

Kenny & the Dragon (2 books)
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3.97 avg rating — 6,262 ratings

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Tony DiTerlizzi wrote a new blog post BEHIND-THE-BOOK: “The Spider & The Fly” The Spider & The Fly was published 22 years ago, on October 1st. Creating this award-winning, bestselling picture book was a journey as twisting and Read more of this blog post »
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Quotes by Tony DiTerlizzi (?)

“Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

tags: insignificance, thought, universe

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“Never abandon imagination”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure

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“The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

tags: answer, puzzle, question

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Polls

Movie March 2022
Please DO NOT vote for a book already listed!
Instead write in books that have been adapted into a movie or TV show
Read the rules for what book you can recommend in the comments below

Coraline by Neil Gaiman (write-in)

2 votes, 18.2%

Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer

1 vote, 9.1%

Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle (write-in)

1 vote, 9.1%

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (write-in)

1 vote, 9.1%

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (write-in)

1 vote, 9.1%

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

1 vote, 9.1%

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1 vote, 9.1%

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

1 vote, 9.1%

Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman (write-in)

1 vote, 9.1%

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

1 vote, 9.1%

The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier

0 votes, 0.0%

Lost in Space: Return to Yesterday by Kevin Emerson

0 votes, 0.0%

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

0 votes, 0.0%

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

0 votes, 0.0%

Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott

0 votes, 0.0%

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

0 votes, 0.0%

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

0 votes, 0.0%

Dune by Frank Herbert

0 votes, 0.0%

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

0 votes, 0.0%

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

0 votes, 0.0%

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

0 votes, 0.0%

The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer

0 votes, 0.0%

The Field Guide by Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi

0 votes, 0.0%

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

0 votes, 0.0%

Nightbooks by J.A. White (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Persuasion by Jane Austen

0 votes, 0.0%

Book One: Moon by Aaron Ehasz

0 votes, 0.0%

The Giver by Lois Lowry

0 votes, 0.0%

Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella

0 votes, 0.0%

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

0 votes, 0.0%

The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs

0 votes, 0.0%

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

0 votes, 0.0%

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

0 votes, 0.0%

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

0 votes, 0.0%

The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

0 votes, 0.0%

Gabby Duran and the Unsittables by Elise Allen

0 votes, 0.0%

Upside-Down Magic by Sarah Mlynowski

0 votes, 0.0%

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

0 votes, 0.0%

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Tony’s Quotes

“Never abandon imagination”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure

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message 4: by Darlene

Oct 24, 2012 07:17PM

Thanks for making me your friend online here. I have read some of your work and loved it.

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message 3: by Dax

Jun 02, 2012 01:34AM

Hi Tony. Please try to come to the Edinburgh Book Festival, I'd love to meet you and have my books signed! It's a big event and all the big names come to it :D

You should come! It'll be fun! :D

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message 2: by P.J.

Sep 06, 2011 07:43AM