summary of the land of stories the wishing spell
The Land of Stories A year has gone by since Alex and Conner Bailey suffered the tragic loss of their father. Their mother, is trying to balance her job and her family after her husband was killed in a car accident. On the birthday of Alex and Connor, their grandmother sends them a very old book. Alex later finds out that the book mysteriously glows. Against Connor's advise to throw the book away, Alex keeps the book and reaches into the book. Connor barges in to stop Alex, but Alex loses her balance and falls into the book. Connor jumps in as well. They found out the book was a portal to the fairy-tale world. They then met Froggy , a man turned into a frog. Froggy gives them a journal that tells of the Wishing Spell,a spell that can grant whatever wish the person wants if the person has eight items. In order to get back to their world, Alex and Connor must find the things of the Wishing Spell. But bad news quickly follows. They later met another person who was later identified as the Huntsman's daughter. Alex and Connor realise that the Huntsman's daughter is working for the Evil Queen to get the Wishing spell as well, and worse, since the Wishing Spell can only be used twice, and the author of the journal about the Wishing Spell had already used it once, it could be only used once more, yet there are two contestents. The Evil Queen gets this message from her magic mirror as well, so there begins a desperate race to get the Wishing Spell.When they are getting the ingredients for the Wishing spell, Alex and Connor comes across many tales that their father had told them. After a while, they had to face the conclusion that their father came from the Fairy-tale world. Finally, when Alex and Connor had gotten all the items of the Wishing spell, the Evil Queen kidnapped them and the items of the Wishing spell, and went to her hiding place, in the north of the Sleeping kingdom. There, Alex tried to prevent the Evil Queen from using the Wishing Spell by smashing the container of fairy tears, one of the items needed in the Wishing Spell. The Evil Queen then told the story of where she came from. When the Evil Queen was little, she was named Evly, and she was a very kind and caring girl. She met Mira, and she fell in love with him. But the enchantress captured her, and stopped her from meeting Mira. Evly tried to send secret messages to Mira, but the Enchantress found out, and imprisoned Mira in a mirror. Evly later killed the Enchantress, but she couldn't do anything to bring Mira back, until she found out the Wishing spell. By then, Alex and Connor were crying. The Evil Queen got a bit of Alex's tears, put it with the items of the Wishing Spell, and somehow the Wishing spell worked. Mira was freed from the magic mirror, but just then the rescue team, led by Froggy, arrived. Mira died in Evly's arms, and they are both swallowed up by the mirror. In the fighting that follows, the Huntsman and his daughter were killed, and Alex and Connor were rescued. Froggy was found to be cursed and was actually prince charlie from the Charming kingdom, and Alex and Connor learned that their grandmother is the Fairy Godmother, who is capable of making portals between the Otherworld and the fairy-tale world, and the journal written by a man who had successfully completed the Wishing Spell years before when he fell in love with a woman on Earth belonged to their father. Therefore, Alex and Conner are part fairy. Alex and Conner get back to their mother through a portal made by their grandmother into the Otherworld in the end.
The Land of Stories A year has gone by since Alex and Conner Bailey suffered the tragic loss of their father. Their mother, who is trying to balance her job and her family after her husband's death, is unable to celebrate their twelfth birthday. Instead, the twins' Grandma comes to celebrate. She gives the twins a book of fairy tales they recognize from their childhood, titled "The Land of Stories". Alex keeps it in her room at night and soon discovers a buzzing noise coming from the book. It doesn't take the twins long to realize that the book of fairy tales is real and acts as a portal between both worlds. They meet numerous classic characters including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood (who's not so little anymore) and new characters including Froggy, Sir Lampton, The Huntress, and Trollbella. However great the twins find the fairy tale world, they realize they need to find a way back to their world. Froggy tells the twins of the Wishing Spell, where magical items are put together to grant one wish. The twins embark on the greatest adventure they've ever been on, traveling across just about every kingdom and encountering villains along the way. They follow the journal of a man who collected the items once before. The book reaches its climax when Alex, Conner, the Evil Queen, the Huntress, Goldilocks, Jack, Queen Red Riding Hood, and the Big Bad Wolf Pack (descendants of the Big Bad Wolf who agreed to kidnap the twins in exchange for Red) as well as Red's army, meet at a hidden palace in the Sleeping Kingdom. Goldilocks and the Huntress battle until Jack fires a cannonball at the Huntress and she is killed. This book also tells the story of Evly, The Evil Queen and her lover Mira. When she was little, she was a very kind and caring girl. Evly stole the Wishing Spell to free her lover Mira from the magic mirror, but he dies in her arms and they are both swallowed up by the mirror. Alex and Conner find themselves trapped in the fairy world, until they learn that their grandmother is the Fairy Godmother, who is capable of making portals between the Otherworld and the Fairy World, and the journal written by a man who had successfully completed the Wishing Spell years before when he fell in love with a woman on Earth belonged to their father. Therefore, Alex and Conner are part fairy. Alex and Conner get back to their mother through a portal made by their grandmother into the Otherworld in the end.
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