March
is National Reading Month, time to focus on the best in children's literature.
Today's featured genre is woodland folklore fantasy books. Does your spine tingle at
the mention of sprites, pixies, brownies, ogres, hobgoblins, faeries and
gryphons? Then "The Spiderwick Chronicles" is just the book
series/movie for you! The first book Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide
just celebrated its 10th birthday. Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi wrote and
illustrated the The Spiderwick Chronicles. There are five more Spiderwick
Chronicles stories: The Seeing Stone, Lucinda's Secret, The Ironwood Tree and
The Wrath of Mulgarath. Spiderwick is Lord of the Rings for elementary school.
There are three more books from Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles called The
Nixie's Song, A Giant Problem and The Wyrm King.
If
you enjoy The Spiderwick Chronicles, book and/or
movie, or fantasy books in general, how about some free printable Spiderwick coloring
pages? Here are Spiderwick coloring
pages depicting Hogsqueal,
Mulgarath, Thimbletack, Jared, Simon, Mallory, Spiderwick Estate, sylphs,
faeiries, ogres, hobgoblins and a griffin. DL-TK has free printable fantasy books coloring pages. Use these for folklore lesson plans.
Spiderwick is the homepage of the woodland fantasy books
series is loaded with fun stuff! Click the Downloads link for printable
hobgoblin mask, crafts, coloring pages, Spiderwick gameboard, trading cards,
puzzles, game cards and more. You can collect creature trading cards but you
have to watch for them; they aren't easy to spot. Look for brownies, boggarts,
unicorns, dwarves, elves, pixies, sprites, the Phooka, Stray Sod and other
creatures of the woodland night. Teachers, you can print off free writing
strands, vocabulary words, folklore lesson plans, journal exercises, and other
free folklore and fantasy books lesson plans. The sound effects and graphics on
this sites are enchanting. Hogsqueal that rascally hobgoblin takes you on a
tour of the site.
Tony
DiTerlizzi has created a pdf booklet of free printable Spiderwick activities. First are several pages of faerie coloring pages
and paper doll clothes straight from the beautiful art of Tony DiTerlizzi.
There is also a whimsical recipe for yummy faerie porridge, a riddle making
game and a creative writing page. Each activity has pieces of Tony DiTerlizzi's
artwork in black and white decorating the pages. These make perfect coloring
pages also! Here are free printable Spiderwick
Chronicles lesson plans from ESL Printables. Here are more Spiderwick activities and activities on
fantasy books.
