The Field Guide

After the divorce, Helen Grace moves her kids Jared, Simon and Mallory into the old Spiderwick estate. Strange things start happening in the house: things go missing, and Jared takes the blame. He finds a secret library and, in an attic chest, Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide, a book about the faeries that live hidden around us. The culprit behind the chaos is Thimbletack, the house brownie, who's furious about the find. The siblings make peace with him. Then Thimbletack warns that the Guide is dangerous and that keeping it will bring trouble. The book ends with that warning hanging in the air.

1. ChangeWhere the Guide hides

   In the book, the Guide sits in the false bottom of an attic chest. In the movie, it's in a secret room, wrapped in cloth.

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2. ChangeHoney for the boggart

   In the movie, it takes honey to turn the boggart back into a brownie. In the book, being kind to Thimbletack is enough.

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3. ChangeA Guide in pieces

   In the series, Lucinda asks Jared to recover the pages of Arthur's Guide. In the book, he finds the Guide whole.

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