• The Land of Stories

  • The Wishing Spell
  • By: Chris Colfer
  • Narrated by: Chris Colfer
  • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (4,550 ratings)

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The Land of Stories

By: Chris Colfer
Narrated by: Chris Colfer
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Publisher's summary

The first book in Chris Colfer's number one New York Times best-selling series

The Land of Stories about two siblings who fall into a fairy-tale world!

Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairy tales. The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with fairy tale characters they grew up reading about.

But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to be harder than they thought.

©2012 Chris Colfer (P)2012 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"It's hard not to love a book dedicated to the Glee star's grandmother...Colfer gets off many good lines [and] the nifty ending ties the plot's multiple strands up while leaving room for further fairy tale adventures." (Publishers Weekly)

"In The Land of Stories, Colfer showcases his talent for crafting fancifully imaginative plots and multidimensional characters." (Los Angeles Times)

"It will hit big with its combination of earnestness and playful poise." (The New York Times Book Review)

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AMAZING

I loved this book it is amazing if you read this book keep in mind that if it starts to get boring (which it never is) it will always be interesting:)

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The adventures

It was so awesome and pretty amazing when they fell into the book and they had a lot of funny and crazy and really messed up adventures with other fairytale characters. It was just amazing.

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Delightful

An inventive, creative, humorous and touching work that weaves the land of Fairy back together, with individual lessons of familiar fairytales brought forward insightfully, and intimations of overarching meaning.

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Read it

Love it the best book ever great read
Recommend now I just need 15 words

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Fantastic

As a teacher for elementary school kids... I feel this story is wonderfully written and should be read! My kids at my school could not stop reading it along with the rest of the series!

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Wow

wow this book is awesome My favorite book noe <3333 Did you guys enjoy this book too☆♡

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Good Tween novel, needs a better narrator

This was a interesting take on old fairytales. I think it is a good pre-tween to tween novel. The biggest draw back, as others have stated, is the narration.

There is no inflection, no feeling, and no real “acting” taking place here. It is read as if the narrator wants to get through it as fast as possible.

I’ll reiterate what others have said. Sometimes you need to hire a skilled person for the job. This is one of those times. With a skilled narrator this would have been so much more enjoyable.

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A great book

I loved it.

I don’t like kissing.

Thanks Chris colfer for righting this book.

Why did the fairy godmother have to be gramma?

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Wonderful reading!

I just loved this so much! Not only was this written by Chris Colfer but also read by him! He did a magnificent job on telling it. I felt as though he made the story come alive with the different voices he portrayed in the audio! I just loved it and can’t wait to hear the next!

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I l l l I like this story it is 9.99999999997/10 to me it’s so good

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