Care and Feeding of Sprites by Holly Black

Since the publication of the five-part Spiderwick Chronicles there have been three "spin-off" publications: Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (a copy of the book that featured so heavily in the Chronicles themselves), A Notebook for Fantastical Observations, designed for readers themselves to fill out, and this, Care and Feeding of Sprites. If you can only choose one of them, then the pick of the litter is undoubtedly the Field Guide, a stunning collection of illustrations and information that (in my opinion) is even better than the five books on which it is based.

But as a second choice Care and Feeding of Sprite... Read More