The nixie's song
Series: Beyond the Spidewick #1
Genre: Fantasy
Original publication date: September 2007
Book description: The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow.
But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem - the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety - and it's up to Nick; his stepsister, Laurie; and his big brother, Julian (plus a familiar face from the original Spiderwick Chronicles) to figure out the best way to stop a host of rampaging giants before all of Florida goes up in smoke.
Thoughts:
It is a nice quick read about Nicholas meeting his new step sister Laurie and finding out about a world of fairies and monsters. It is the very first book, we have them finding out about monsters closer to them than what they expected.
It is a very short book and with beautiful illustrations.
It has touches of difficult subjects like the fact that both families are struggling to get used to the growth of it by a few members and not everyone can be pleased with the changes. Yet we also see a fantastical element that makes the children come closer. It definately feels incomplete, as soon as you get to the end you feel the need to get to the next one. I feel this is a trilogy you can bench read in a week maybe if you wanted to.
I will not but it could be easily done if you have all of the to start with.
This was also a book used for the Winter Magical Readathon.
After reading this I was so pumped that I picked up another book right away, though not the next one in the series.
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