The Fairy & Arts Festival of Easthampton MA present
VIP Special Guests Award Winning Authors Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
Spiderwick Chronicles
Spiderwick Chronicle Movie Viewing
At the Fairy & Arts Festival attendees will enjoy a complimentary viewing of the Spiderwick Chronicles with the purchase of your ticket to the festival.
Mystical Magical Trunk Show
Tony's D'Terlizzi will interact with the festival audience as he performs his Magical Trunk Show which consists of going through his trunk of magical and mystical items.
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Spiderwick Chronical Book Signing
Tony and Holly will be doing a Spiderwick Chronicled Book Signing. You can bring your favorite Spiderwick book to be signed or books can be purchased at the festival while they last. ​​
About Tony DiTerlizzi
"Never abandon imagination"
“Imagination is a world of possibility that exists within each of us. It is what makes us uniquely human. It is our creative fingerprint that touches and influences the world around us. Imagination is essential to art and science; to innovation and prosperity. It gives us hope, calls us to action and leads to change.
Tony DiTerlizzi is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator who has been enchanting readers for over 25 years with his richly imagined stories and distinctive artwork. From whimsical picture books like The Spider & The Fly—a Caldecott Honor winner—to timeless tales like Kenny & The Dragon, DiTerlizzi’s work blends classic charm with boundless creativity.
He is the co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles, the acclaimed middle-grade fantasy series developed with Holly Black, which has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. The series inspired a major motion picture and was recently reimagined as an Emmy Award-winning television series for the Roku Channel. His bestselling science-fiction trilogy, WondLa, has also made the leap to the screen, adapted by Skydance Animation and now streaming on Apple TV+.
Before his career in children’s literature, DiTerlizzi was a pioneering artist for Dungeons & Dragons, where he helped define the iconic visual style of the Planescape game setting. His vivid storytelling has also extended to a retelling of the Star Wars saga for Lucasfilm and a bestselling collaboration with Mo Willems on The Story of Diva & Flea.
In 2018, the Norman Rockwell Museum honored his career with a record-breaking retrospective exhibition, Never Abandon Imagination. DiTerlizzi’s work has been spotlighted by Time, USA Today, CNN, PBS, NPR, the BBC, and The Today Show.
About Holly Black
Holly Black is a bestselling author of contemporary fantasy novels. She grew up in New Jersey and loved reading and writing from an early age. Her first book, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, was published in 2002. Tithe was called “dark, edgy, beautifully written and compulsively readable” by Booklist and was included in the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults. She published a companion book, Valiant (2005), which was the recipient of a Nebula Award (formerly the Andre Norton Award), and a sequel, Ironside (2007), which spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Holly collaborated with her long-time friend, Caldecott-award-winning artist, Tony DiTerlizzi, to create the bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles. The first two books, The Field Guide and The Seeing Stone were released together in 2003, with the next three, Lucinda’s Secret (2003), The
Ironwood Tree (2004) and The Wrath of Mulgarath (2004), following in rapid succession. The Wrath of Mulgarath climbed to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The five-book serial has been called “vintage Victorian fantasy” by the New York Post and Time Magazine reported that “the books wallow in their dusty Olde Worlde charm.” The lavishly illustrated Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to The Fantastical World
Around You (2005), The Notebook for Fantastical Observations (2005), and Care and Feeding of Sprites (2006) expanded the Spiderwick universe. To date, the books have been translated into 32 languages. There are three additional chapter books in the Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles series, The
Nixie’s Song(2007), A Giant Problem (2008) and The
Wyrm King (2009). The Spiderwick Chronicles were adapted into a film by Paramount Pictures in conjunction with Nickelodeon Films. Released in February 2008, the film stars Freddie Highmore and Sarah Bolger, with Mark Waters as the director. In 2024, The Spiderwick Chronicles was adapted into a television show, starring Christian Slater, Joy Bryant, Lyon Daniels, and Noah Cottrell.