The Field Guide and The Seeing Stone by Holly Black (blackholly)

[lightreads]

Fiction. First two books of the Spiderwick Chronicles for young readers about children's adventures with faerie. You can tell these are good kids books because I found them excruciatingly boring -- the really good kidlit doesn't get swamped by the sort of adult-directed social commentary which made Sesame Street so fun but so educationally ineffective. Props for employing an unconventional family and a socially maladjusted protagonist, though. I think I'll get more out of her young adult fiction.