What other books have you written?

TD: All my main titles are featured in the BOOKS section of the website. Otherwise here is the short list:

Jimmy Zangwow’s Out-of-this-World Moon Pie Adventure (2000) – A crafty boy, a homemade spaceship, 1000 Moon pies and 900 Martians. What more do you need to know?

Ted (2001) – a bored lonely boy + a workaholic father + a gigantic pink rabbit (that only the boy can see) = Mayhem. A LOT of mayhem. (seriously, I had to put a warning on the back of the book).

The Spiderwick Chronicles (series launched in 2003) – Three kids find an old dusty field guide (made by their great uncle) to fairies, trolls and goblins. Guess what? It’s all real. (co-created with Holly Black)

G is for One Gzonk! (2006) – This alpha-number-bet book teaches neither the alphabet nor counting. But this homage to Dr. Seuss and Edward Lear does teach silliness.

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles (series launched in 2007) – Three new kids and three new adventures. Thankfully, they get help from three old fairy specialists. (co-created with Holly Black)

Kenny and The Dragon (2008) – A retelling of Kenneth Grahame’s classic story, The Reluctant Dragon. A young bookish rabbit becomes friends with a dragon who is anything but vicious. Too bad Kenny’s best friend, George the knight, doesn’t see it that way.

The Search for WondLa (trilogy launched in 2010) – A girl is raised by a robot on an alien planet and realizes she is the only human there.

The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight (2014) – this picture retells the story of the greatest Jedi Knight of all with artwork by Academy Award-winning concept artist, Ralph McQuarrie.

The Broken Ornament (2018) – Jack wants the biggest Christmas ever! So who cares if he breaks his mom’s old dusty ornament, there’s Christmas spirit to spare at his house and that’s all that matters, right?

Kenny and The Book of Beasts (2020) – Kenny Rabbit and Grahame the dragon return in a new story about friendship. This time Kenny is tested when one of Grahame’s old friends returns while a witch plans to banish Grahame forever.

The Wump (2026) – A creepy and poignant illustrated middle grade novel about a timid boy whose shadow monster emerges and takes control, pushing him to finally stand up to his bullies and revealing the darkness—and light—inside all of us.

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Never Abandon Imagination 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.

Whether it’s fairies, dragons, robots or aliens, all of my children’s book characters are siblings born of my imagination – an imagination strengthened through years of encouragement from family, teachers and friends. While so many others abandoned it during their transition from childhood to adulthood, I fiercely held onto mine, hoping for a day when I could share it to inspire the next generation of dreamers. Innovators. World changers.

Imagination empowers us to envision and create a reality of what could be. We must hold it dear, foster it and never abandon it.