Michelle Wei’s Reviews > The Wishing Spell > Status Update

The Evil Queen from Snow White was put to jail/ However, now, that Evil Queen has escaped. The queen is looking for the wishing spell. The same thing that the kids are looking for. I feel like the Evil Queen isn’t really evil though. There must have been something that made her this way. On the side note, the kids now have 2 of the 5? items they need. Rapunzel’s hair and one of Cinderella’s slippers.

We meet these two kids who recently lost their father. Then their grandmother comes to visit and gives them a book. And they fall into it. Into the Land of Stories. I wish I could fall into a book. Or the 2D world. I’d never leave. But now they’re trying to find a way back, which means gathering items for the Wishing Spell. But if I was them, I’d want to stay in the book. It’s a land where all the fairy tales live.

I’ve just started reading this book, but something popped out at me as I just started. “'Sadly, these timeless tales are no longer relevant in our society,’ Mrs. Peters said. 'We have traded their brilliant teachings for small-minded entertainment like television and video games. Parents now let obnoxious cartoons and violent movies influence their children.’” (13). This reminded me a lot of F451 right when I saw it.