The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer

Author:Chris Colfer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2016-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

Castle servants fell asleep standing up as they did their morning chores. Gardeners dozed off while tending to the plants in the gardens. The shopkeepers, butchers, bakers, and farmers throughout the kingdom’s villages went to sleep too. The king and queen even fell asleep on their thrones.

The fairies returned and looked after the kingdom and made the people comfortable while they slept. They searched all over the world for someone to break the curse, but none of the suitors they brought to the castle awoke the princess with a kiss.

To make matters worse, the Enchantress cursed the kingdom a second time, this time with vines and thornbush. The plants grew over the land until it was virtually hidden and went unnoticed to any travelers nearby. As time went on, the fairies lost all hope of breaking the curse.

The kingdom slept for over a hundred years. Its existence faded from history and became a fable. As more time passed, the fable was reduced to just a myth, and the myth was soon forgotten entirely. Well, almost entirely.

During the curse’s one hundred and first year, an adventurous young prince was traveling through the woods when he came upon the long-lost kingdom.

“What a strange place,” he said.

Using his sword, the prince cut through the plants covering the kingdom and found a road winding through the sleeping villages. The number of people he saw sleeping peacefully was astonishing. He tapped their shoulders, poked their arms, and waved his fingers in front of their faces, but nothing woke them up.

“This must be the Sleeping Kingdom!” the prince said excitedly. “My grandfather told me about a place like this when I was a child, but I thought it was just a story.”

The prince followed the road up to the castle and eagerly began to explore. All the servants and soldiers sleeping inside seemed to be frozen in time.

Eventually, he came upon the spiral staircase leading to the tallest tower of the castle. He climbed it, hoping to get a better view of the mysterious kingdom. When he finally reached the top, he discovered the sleeping princess resting on a giant bed inside.

“What a beautiful girl,” he said to himself.

The prince’s grandfather had told him about the princess of the Sleeping Kingdom, but he was so smitten with her beauty, the prince forgot all about the story. For all he knew, she was just a pretty girl cursed to sleep for all eternity.

As if he were being controlled by something much greater than himself, the prince stood beside her bed and leaned down to kiss her lips.

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