The Wishing Spell
core novel 2012 The Land of Stories
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.26 (166,119 ratings, collected 2026-10-27) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316201575 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Nearly a year after their father's death, twins Alex and Conner Bailey receive an old book of fairy tales from their grandmother on their twelfth birthday, and fall through its pages into a world where the stories are real. To get home they must gather the items for a legendary Wishing Spell, guided by a frog-man's journal, while the Evil Queen hunts for the same spell for reasons of her own. Along the way they learn their family is tied to this world.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Land of Stories
- Series: The Land of Stories core; position 1 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Chris Colfer
Notes
- From the series record (The Land of Stories): Six novels following the Bailey twins in the fairy-tale world, 2012-2017.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Land of Stories: position 1 of 6: next The Enchantress Returns (2013)
- Internal chronology, within The Land of Stories: position 1 of 9: next A Tale of Magic... (2019)
Sources
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