The Seeing Stone
core novel 2003 The Spiderwick Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (49,425 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 114 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780689859373 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
In The Seeing Stone, the Grace family continues settling into the Spiderwick Estate after largely dismissing the warnings contained in the field guide Jared found in the previous book, a decision that proves costly when young Simon is abducted by goblins drawn to the estate's hidden magic. With Simon missing and their mother unaware of the danger's true nature, Jared and his sister Mallory, now able to see the faerie world around them for the first time, must find a way to track down and rescue their brother before the goblins can harm him. Their search leads them to an unlikely ally, a cantankerous hobgoblin named Hogsqueal, whose knowledge of the estate's hidden world becomes essential to the rescue.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Spiderwick Chronicles
- Series: The Spiderwick Chronicles core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Holly Black
- Author: Tony DiTerlizzi
Notes
- From the series record (The Spiderwick Chronicles): The original five-book middle-grade series, co-created and co-written with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, following the Grace children's discovery of a hidden world of faeries and other creatures at Spiderwick Estate.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Spiderwick Chronicles: position 2 of 5: previous The Field Guide (2003) · next Lucinda's Secret (2003)
Sources
- Holly Black - Wikipedia
- Holly Black's own complete bibliography page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiderwick_Chronicles
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