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. He also found the story engrossing.Children's fiction, adventure and fantasy That said, my 11 year old liked the narration. I preferred other narrators in this genre like Bronson Pinchot and Johnny Heller. He has a flat quality to his voice which I didn't really like. They were very similar so if you liked the last one, you will likely enjoy this as well.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?Ĭolder isn't my favorite narrator which surprised me since he's an actor. My 11 year old and I listened to his first book as well (the prior book in this series). Have you listened to any of Chris Colfer’s other performances before? How does this one compare? The fresh take on fairy tale stories we all know. Fairy tale fantasy type stories seem to translate really well to the audio format.

I haven't read the print version but this is a great book on audio. Would you consider the audio edition of The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns to be better than the print version? Second in the series continues the adventure

The enchantress returns