![]() ![]() The old woman is really the witch/queen from the castle and the girl in the cottage is none other than Snow White. He thwarts the woman's plan of poisoning the girl, and now the kids have to set the fairy tale right again. ![]() Jonah is starving, and when the grandmother offers the girl inside the cottage an apple, Jonah begs for the apple. ![]() They follow her to a small cottage where she tries to trick the occupant into letting her in. ![]() Abby can't believe a grandmother type can be rude-grandmothers are supposed to be nice. Suddenly the basement and Smithville are looking better and better! They run into a wrinkled grandmotherly old lady who is just rude. Everything is weirdly off and they have no way of getting back home. Jonah shows Abby how he knocked on the mirror and it began to shimmer and hiss and suddenly they are sucked into the ornate mirror and find themselves in a huge forest. He wakes his sister up and together they venture downstairs in the middle of the night. They live in a creepy old house where Jonah has discovered something quite strange in the basement. It is a great beginning full of fun and puns! Siblings Abby and Jonah have just moved cross country to Smithville, a small town that pales in comparison to Abby's beloved Chicago. Fresh, funny, and fairest of all, Whatever After: Fairest of All is book one in what appears to be a planned series. ![]()
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