After a while, they face the conclusion that their father came from the fairy-tale world.įinally, when Alex and Conner get all the items for the Wishing Spell, the Evil Queen kidnaps them, takes the items, and goes to her hiding place, North of the Sleeping Kingdom. While they are collecting the ingredients for the Wishing spell, Alex and Conner come across many tales that their father had once told them.

The Evil Queen gets this message from her magic mirror as well, and begins a desperate race to create the Wishing Spell.

They find out that the Wishing Spell can only be used twice, and the man who wrote the journal already used it. Alex and Conner realize that the Huntress is working for the Evil Queen to get the Wishing Spell as well. They later meet another person who was later identified as the Huntsman's daughter, the Huntress. Hoping to return to the real world, Alex and Conner set off to find the Wishing Spell items. The Wishing Spell is a spell that can grant whatever wish the person wants if the person has a specific eight items. Froggy gives them a journal that tells of the Wishing Spell, and how to find it. There, they meet Froggy, a man turned into a frog. They find out the book is a portal to the fairy-tale world. Conner barges in to stop Alex from going into the book, but doing so, startling Alex, and therefore making her fall into the book. Against Conner's advice to throw the book away, Alex keeps the book and eventually reaches into it, after experimenting by throwing pencils and books inside. Alex realizes that the book hums, glows, and eventually sucks items into its pages. On Alex and Conner's twelfth birthday, their grandmother gives them an old fairy tale book from her childhood.

Their mother is trying to balance her job and her family. Ī year and 9 months have gone by since twins Alex and Conner Bailey lost their father in a car accident. The first book in the series, The Wishing Spell was published on July 17, 2012. The books are described by Colfer as a 'modern-day fairy tale', following twins Alex and Conner Bailey as they fall from the real world into a world full of fairy tales they have only ever read about before and discovering there is more to this world than meets the eye.īooks The Wishing Spell During a live video chat, Colfer revealed plans for a prequel series, which have now been published. The sixth book was published in July 2017. The first book, The Wishing Spell, was released on July 17, 2012. The Land of Stories is a series of children's fiction, adventure and fantasy books written by American author, actor and singer Chris Colfer. Children's fiction, adventure and fantasy

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