
Ignoring the warnings of Thimbletack, a small enchanted creature ordered to protect the book, Jared begins reading it. Jared begins to notice unusual happenings in the old house and discovers a strange book written by Lucinda’s long-missing father, Arthur Spiderwick. In the story, which is based on the first five little Spiderwick books written by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, Helen Grace moves her three children, Jared, Simon and Mallory, into the former home of their great aunt Lucinda. Though the movie’s worldview is somewhat mixed, it ultimately seems to take a Christian attitude to fairyland creatures such as goblins, hobgoblins, fairies, and sprites. Tolkein into the land of faerie in a family movie filled with lots of action.

The Spiderwick Chronicles follows Christian author J.R.R.
