By Chris Colfer
Twin siblings tumble through a magic storybook into a land where every fairy tale is real, and the only way home is a spell built from the tales themselves.
Twins Alex and Conner Bailey get a beautiful old book of fairy tales from their grandmother, and one night it starts to glow and pulls them right inside. Now they're in the Land of Stories, where Cinderella is a queen, Goldilocks is a wanted outlaw, and the fairy tales your child already knows are all real and all tangled up together. The only way back home is the Wishing Spell, a set of hidden objects scattered across the kingdoms, and the twins aren't the only ones hunting for them. The Evil Queen from Snow White wants the same spell, and she's ahead of them.
This is the whole reason to hand a child a big fat fantasy: it's a doorway into a world they can wander for months, because the series runs to six main books. Every fairy tale your child half-remembers is here, reinvented, so there's a constant thrill of recognition, and the treasure-hunt structure keeps the pages turning. Alex and Conner are opposites who need each other, which gives the adventure a warm sibling center under all the magic. A child who falls for this one has a long, satisfying road ahead of them.