The Lost Fairytales – Anna James Free Audiobook

Written by Anna James
Read by Aysha Kala
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Pages & Co. Series, Book 2
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: May 5, 2020
Duration: 07:17:48

The second magical bookwandering adventure in the nationally bestselling Pages & Co. series, featuring Tilly Pages as she journeys to France to wander inside a peculiar book of fairytales. Perfect for fans of Inkheart and The Land of Stories.

Tilly and her best friend Oskar are bookwanderers: a remarkable group of people who, using the magical power of books, can travel inside any story they choose. But on a wintry visit to Paris, the friends wander inside a book of fairy tales to find that peculiar things are happening: characters are getting lost, stories are all mixed up, and mysterious plot holes are opening without warning . . .

It’s up to Tilly and Oskar to figure out what—or who—is behind the chaos. And after the friends come face-to-face with an old foe, they realize that villains can exist outside the pages of books . . . and that sometimes, you don’t get to live happily ever after.
Praise for the Pages & Co. series:

“Mr. Lemoncello would love to go bookwandering at Pages and Co. If you love books, you’re going to LOVE this book!”—Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Mr. Lemoncello series

Kirkus Review…March 15, 2020
Why is the new head of the Underlibrary cracking down on bookwandering? After Enoch Chalk escaped into fiction in series opener The Bookwanderers (2018), the old Head Librarian was disgraced. Her replacement, the smarmy demagogue Melville, begins his tenure with a bang: He forbids Oskar and Tilly from bookwandering, bans Tilly’s whole family from the British Underlibrary, and implements tracking measures to locate every bookwanderer. Oskar and Tilly are ready to battle the new regime, and they don’t understand the wariness of Tilly’s grandparents, who warn them to obey the new rules. When they disobey the adults’ dire warnings and enter a book of fairy tales, they discover horrible dangers. Fairy-tale characters are dissolving into black ooze or vanishing altogether. Oskar’s kidnapped into Rapunzel’s story, and even Tilly, who’s half-fictional on her father’s side, is hard-pressed to rescue him. The fairy-tale boundaries are so corrupted that Rapunzel is besieged by countless worthless Prince Charmings–Tilly and Oskar had best find out what’s wrong posthaste. …Winsomely harking back to the oldest children’s classics, this has special appeal for romantic bibliophiles. (Fantasy. 9-11)

Gr 5-7-In this series sequel, Tilly and her friend Oskar try to rescue lost fairy tales, a particular challenge because they are changeable stories based on oral traditions. … As they morph inside stories, book magic happens and the text transmogrifies too. As gateways between books appear, plot holes open and book magic leaks. VERDICT This series is made for book-lovers and attests to the power and importance of stories.— School Library Journal