And thus, the scene is set for Chris Colfers middle grade portal fantasy The Land of Stories.įor Alex and Conner, the tales told to them by their father were a source of support and moral sustenance used to help each square peg twin feel slightly less out of place in this round hole world. Fairy tales are life lessons disguised with colourful characters and situations, preaches Mrs Peters to her class of apathetic pre-teens, among them our twin protagonists, swotty Alex and snoozy layabout Conner.Īfter this valiant bit of Aesopian moralising, Peters'goes on to bemoan the loss of the original Hans Christian Anderson and Brothers Grimm tales in favour of Disneyfied bastardisations and the competing charms of computer games and violent movies.
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