אזהרת האחים גרים

***ארץ האגדות: אזהרת האחים גרים*** הוא החלק השלישי *בסדרת ארץ האגדות* של כריס קולפר*.* הספר נדפס לראשונה באנגלית ב-8/7/2014 על ידי ההוצאה לאור "Little, Brown and Company". בישראל הודפס הספר לראשונה בקיץ תשע"ה (אוגוסט 2015) על ידי הוצאת אריה-ניר.

ב*אזהרת האחים גרים* התאומים קונר ואלכס מתמודדים שניהם עם אתגרים משלהם, ומתאחדים כדי להציל את עולם האגדות מאיום חדש.

## Publisher's Summary & Jacket Interior Summary

**Publisher's summary**: *Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him—until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a 200-year-old code.*

*Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother… but her attempts at granting wishes never go as planned. Will she ever be truly ready to lead the Fairy Council?”*

*When all signs point to disaster for the Land of Stories, Conner and Alex must join forces with their friends and enemies to save the day. But nothing can prepare them for the coming battle… or for the secret that will change the twins’ lives forever.*

The third book in the bestselling Land of Stories series puts the twins to the test as they must bring two worlds together!

## הקדשות, אפיגרף ותודות

**הקדשה**: *מוקדש לג'יי קיי רולינג, ק״ס לואיס, רואלד דאל, אווה איבוטסון, ל' פרנק באום, ג'יימס מ' בארי, לואיס קרול ולכל הסופרים הנפלאים האחרים שלימדו את העולם להאמין בקסמים. כשאני חושב על הזמן הרב שהשקעתי בבדיקת ארונות בגדים, באיתור הכוכב השני מימין ובהמתנה למכתב הקבלה שלי להוגוורטס —איני מתפלא כלל שהציונים שלי לא היו טובים. וגם לכל המורים והספרניות שהמליצו על סדרת הספרים שכתבתי. אין די מילים בפי לתאר כמה התמיכה שלכם חשובה לי.*

**אפיגרף**: "יש לך אויבים? טוב מאוד. סימן שנקטת עמדה תקיפה בשלב כזה או אחר של חייך." — וינסטון צ'רצ'יל.

**תודות**: *ברצוני להודות לרוב וייסבך, אלה פלוטקין, רייצ'ל קרטן, גלן ריגברג, דרק קרוגר, לורי ברטלט, מרדית וצ'טר, ג'ואן ויילס, מרדית פיין, והמוח השני שלי, התר מנזוטו. תודה לאלווינה לינג, מלני צ'אנג, בתאני סטרוט, מיגן טינגלי, אנדרו סמית וכל אנשי הוצאת ליטל, בראון. הורי, אחותי, סבתא, ויל, אש, פאם, ג'יימי, ג'ן, מליסה, באבס, דוט וברידג'יט, רומי, רוברטו, צ'אר, וופי, בריאן, וכל שאר ידידיי ובני משפחתי שתרמו בלא יודעין חומרים לספר הזה, תודה לכולכם. תודה לג'רי מייברוק שישב עמי אין־ספור שעות ותִמלל ספרים מוקלטים ואפה לי לחם תוצרת בית שטעים ממנו לא אכלתי מעודי. תודה לאנשי בית העלמין של כנסיית סנט מתיאוס ואנשי טירת ְ נוֹישווָ ַ נשטיין. ולכל הקוראים ששולחים לי ציורים של הדמויות החביבות עליהם ביותר ויומני קריאה — אין לכם מושג כמה אתם משמחים אותי!*

**אזהרת ספוילר: פרטי עלילה בהמשך**

## עלילת הפרקים

### פרולוג - אורחי הצבא הגדול

1811- One of the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/General\_Marquis commanders] of the French [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Grande\_Arm%C3%A9e Grande Armée] has kidnapped the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Brothers\_Grimm Brothers Grimm]. He knows they have been getting their stories from fairies and demands to know how to get to the fairytale world. He has also captured [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Mother\_Goose Mother Goose] and her [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Lester golden egg], but she escapes as soon as she wakes up. The Brothers Grimm are given an ultimatum.

### פרק 1: הזדמנות לימודית

[./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Conner\_Bailey Conner] is about to leave on a three day trip to Germany with [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Mrs.\_Peters Mrs. Peters] and some other students to witness the first reading of three fairytales by Brothers Grimm that were found in a time capsule. He briefly speaks to [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Alex\_Bailey Alex], whom he misses very much, through their [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Twins'\_Magic\_Mirrors magic mirror]. She says she has been learning a lot and living in the Land of Stories is like a dream come true.

### פרק 2: היכל החלומות

During her training as a fairy, Alex is ambitiously trying to grant three wishes before noon every day. Helped by her unicorn [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Cornelius Cornelius], she finds three people with a wish (one of them the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Farmer\_Robins father] of [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Rook\_Robins Rook], a boy she finds rather interesting), but her attempts to help them backfire. Frustrated, she returns to the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Fairy\_Palace Fairy Palace] and talks to the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Fairy\_Godmother Fairy Godmother], who explains that not everyone with a wish wants to be helped. She shows her the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Fairy\_Palace Hall of Dreams] to help her choose which wishes she can grant.

### פרק 3: מחבקות הספרים

Conner leaves for Germany with Mrs. Peters, [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Bree\_Campbell Bree] and the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Bookhuggers Bookhuggers]. Bree suspects he has a crush on her and the Bookhuggers suspect Alex isn't in "Vermont". And then [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Book\_Huggers The Book Huggers] confront Conner regarding [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Alex\_Bailey Alex Bailey].

### פרק 4: חתונה ביערות הגמדים

Alex meets Rook again and he asks her for a walk. She accepts, but is very wary of her own feelings. [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Goldilocks Goldilocks] and [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Jack Jack] get married in the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Dwarf\_Forests The Dwarf Forests]. [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Mother\_Goose Mother Goose] acts as the wedding officiant.

### פרק 5: הארה באתר הקבורה

Conner arrives in [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Berlin Berlin] and attends the reveal of the new fairytales. Two of them turn out to be very familiar ([./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Original\_Stories The Curvy Tree] and [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Original\_Stories The Walking Fish]). The third is a warning of sorts about an army approaching the land of Stories. Conner tries to reach Alex to warn her, but to no avail. Meanwhile Bree has recognised Conner's "original stories" and is very surprised.

### פרק 6: בית הנבחרים של המלכה כיפה אדומה

Alex joins Queen [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Red\_Riding\_Hood Red Riding Hood] at the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/House\_of\_Progress House of Progress] to talk about Rook. [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Little\_Bo\_Peep Little Bo Peep] arrives to challenge Red's claim on the throne on the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Red\_Riding\_Hood\_Kingdom Red Riding Hood Kingdom].

### פרק 7: מציצים לבו הקטנה

Alex and Rook go on a walk to get to know each other better. They go spy on Little Bo Peep and discover she has a [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Little\_Bo\_Peep's\_Magic\_Mirror magic mirror] hidden in her barn, through which she communicates with a mysterious lover. She wants to become queen to free him.

### פרק 8: נשף החניכה של הפיות

After an inauguration test at the Fairy Ball, Alex is accepted into the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Fairy\_Council Fairy Council]. She meets Rook, who has sneaked in to see her. Rather than being upset that she didn't tell him exactly who she was, Rook is very impressed and they share their first kiss. [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Three\_Witches Three witches] arrive at the ball uninvitedly and give them a prophecy about an approaching 'army of thousands'. [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Mother\_Goose Mother Goose] knows what this means and contacts Conner.

### פרק 9: נטישת הטיול

Conner and Mother Goose talk through the mirror. The Grimm's third fairytale is true and the French army is traveling through a [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Portals\_to\_the\_Land\_of\_Stories portal] to the Land of Stories, on a route that would take them 200 years to get there. Mother Goose never told anyone about it because the portals were all closed after the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Ezmia Enchantress] was defeated- but now they may have re-opened. Conner has to check a portal on his side. Bree overhears their conversation and, after hearing the truth from Conner, offers to help him.

### פרק 10: האריה מהגדה הדרומית

Conner and Bree travel to [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/London London] and find the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/South\_Bank\_Lion South Bank Lion], who tells them where to find the portal and how to activate it. The portal is in Germany, but they need a [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Magic\_Panpipe magic panpipe] to open it, which is in Mother Goose's vault in [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Monte\_Carlo Monte Carlo].

### פרק 11: קזינו אור הכוכבים

Conner and Bree travel to Monte Carlo accompanied by "[./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Granny\_Pearl Granny Pearl]", an old German woman they took with them from London so they wouldn't look suspicious traveling alone. They retrieve the panpipe from Mother Goose's vault and travel to [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Neuschwanstein Neuschwanstein], Germany.

### פרק 12: הסודות של טירת נוישוונשטיין

Conner and Bree find their way to the castle and trick a local boy into sneaking them inside. They discover the portal and activate it: Conner, Bree and the boy [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Emmerich\_Himmelsbach Emmerich] are sucked into it.

### פרק 13: המלכה המודחת

Bo Peep challenges Red to a debate before the election. It doesn't go well for Red. She loses the election and her throne. She is evicted from the castle. Alex takes her and [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Froggy Froggy] to the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Fairy\_Palace Fairy Palace] and they find out the Fairy Godmother is sick. Froggy turns back into a frog.

### פרק 14: החיילים באים

Conner, Bree and Emmerich arrive in the Land of Stories. So does the Grande Armée. [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/General\_Marquis General Marquis] interrogates a man from the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Eastern\_Kingdom Eastern Kingdom] and then has him killed. He advances to [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Pinocchio\_Prison Pinocchio Prison] to recruit the prisoners for his army.

### פרק 15: מפגש שמח-עצוב

Alex finds out her grandmother is dying; this is why the magic is starting to fail and Froggy turned back into a frog and the portal reopened. Conner, Bree and Emmerich arrive and they fill each other in on the situation. Bree and Emmerich cannot go home yet because the portal is only half-opened (one way).

### פרק 16: האיש במסכה מכלא פינוקיו

Most prisoners in Pinocchio Prison join the Grand Armée. One prisoner in particular, the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Masked\_Man Masked Man], offers to help General Marquis. He says the only way to defeat the Fairy Council is to have a dragon on their side, and he knows where to get one.

### פרק 17: העדה היחידה

Alex and Conner go to Pinocchio Prison and talk to [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Gretel Gretel]. They find out that the Armée wants to get a dragon. When they find their camp, they see them and their new allies are preparing for war.

### פרק 18: הברבורים נשלחים

Alex assembles the Land of Stories monarchs and makes a battle plan; splitting up the armies, keeping the royals on the move on a [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Enchanted\_Path magically hidden path] to keep them safe, and going to negotionate with the Troblins and the Elves to join them. Jack and Goldilocks arrive to protect the royals.

### פרק 19: עסקה קפואה

General Marquis and the Masked Man travel to the Northern Mountains to retrieve a dragon egg from the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Snow\_Queen Snow Queen]. She wants the Northern Kingdom in return. General Marquis wants to kill the Masked Man after receiving the egg, but the Masked Man convinces him they need his knowledge about hatching dragons. The Snow Queen [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Snow\_Queen's\_Prophecies prophecises] that the Masked Man's identity will soon be revealed.

### פרק 20: אגם טרובלין הגדול

Alex and Conner visit [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Trollbella Trollbella] at the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Troll\_and\_Goblin\_Territory Troll and Goblin Territory] (now The Great Troblin Lake). Thinking she'd never see Conner again, Trollbella has found [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Gator a new love interest]. To make Conner feel better about this, she agrees to let them have her army.

### פרק 21: אוד מוצל מאש

The royals pass a village that has been destroyed by the Grande Armée, its only survivior a small [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Ash baby]. Queen [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Sleeping\_Beauty Sleeping Beauty] decides to adopt the baby and she names her Ash. Upon seeing the destruction, Red realises she wants to be able to fight and asks Goldilocks for lessons.

### פרק 22: אל בטן האדמה

The Armée is hatching the dragon egg in the Eastern Kingdom, making captured villagers work for them. Thanks to Alex strategy, their scouts are fooled into thinking their opponents' armies are smaller than they are.

### פרק 23: אימפריית השדונים

The Troblins agree to join Alex and Conner. After this, the twins travel to the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Elf\_Empire Elf Empire]. Empress [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Elvina\_the\_Elf\_Empress Elvina] is opposed to helping them because of the way the elves were treated by the Fairy Council in the past, but Alex convinces her by promising to abolish the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Happily\_Ever\_After\_Assembly Happily Ever After Assembly] and founding a new, inclusive assembly with Elvina. Before the elf army can join their forces, however, they are attacked by the Armée. [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Lester Lester], Alex and Conner are badly wounded.

### פרק 24: הצבא הנסתר

[./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Charming\_Kingdom The Charming Kingdom] is under attack. Its civilians join the army to help fight off its attackers.

### פרק 25: הלהבות המרפאות של האגטה

Alex and Conner wake up in a witch's cottage; she is [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Hagetta Hagetta], [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Hagatha Hagatha]'s sister, a healer. She helps them get well by magic. She also tells them about some of the others she has helped in the past (Goldilocks, Little Bo Peep).

### פרק 26: האכלת היצור

The [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Dragon dragon] is hatched, but the Armée has lost a lot of men in the fight against the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Charming\_Kingdom Charming Kingdom]. To save his father and the other villagers, Rook offers to bring the army to the royals in return for the villagers' freedom. The royals are ambushed and captured.

### פרק 27: אות משמים

To rally all armies at once, Alex and Conner join forces to achieve "the greatest magic ever attempted"; turning themselves into a [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Signal\_in\_the\_Sky shooting star] as a signal and means to transport all the armies to the Fairy Palace.

### פרק 28: הקרב על ממלכת הפיות

General Marquis is about to execute the royals, but Alex and Conner arrive just in time. The kings and queens, Jack, Goldilocks, Froggy, Red, Bree and Emmerich are freed and rather than hide, the royals stay and fight. Bo Peep flees and Froggy and Red try to find her. Alex finds out Rook betrayed them. The soldiers of the Grande Armée are defeated, but General Marquis refuses to surrender. The Masked Man arrives with the dragon.

### פרק 29: הדרקון נכנס לפעולה

The Masked Man reveals his plan of using the Armée to get to the Fairy Palace to take his revenge on the fairies with the dragon. He makes the dragon kill the General. Bo Peep tries to stop him, appealing to their love, but fails. She dies of heartbreak. Rook leads Cornelius and the unicorns into an attack against the dragon. Alex begs her grandmother for help; the Fairy Godmother wakes up and defeats the dragon, using her last magic. She then passes on.

### פרק 30: חזרה אל הקסם

After honoring the fallen, Bree and Emmerich return to their world. Before she goes, Bree confides in Conner that she has a crush on him too. Rook comes to talk to Alex, but she doesn't want to be with him anymore. Conner decides to stay in the Land of Stories for now to help Alex get used to being the new Fairy Godmother.

### פרק 31: האמת המרה

Alex founds the [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/Happily\_Forever\_After\_Assembly Happily Forever After Assembly] and appoints Jack and Goldie to capture the escaped criminals from Pinocchio Prison. Froggy is elected King of the (former) [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Red-Riding\_Hood\_Kingdom Red Riding Hood Kingdom] / Bo Peep Republic. He decides to name the kingdom the Center Kingdom, a name he hopes will last. The fairy castle is attacked by the remainder of the Armée, but it is only a distraction so the Masked Man can sneak into the Fairy Godmother's room. Alex catches him in the act and is shocked to see who he really is underneath his mask. She tells Conner that the Masked Man is their [./https://thelandofstories.fandom.com/wiki/John\_Bailey father], who supposedly died a long time ago.

## Reception

**Praise for the Land of Stories Series:**

*"It will hit big with its combination of earnestness and playful poise."* (The New York Times Book Review).

*"It's hard not to love [the book]...Colfer gets off many good lines [and] the nifty ending ties the plot's multiple strands up while leaving room for further fairy tale adventures."* (Publishers Weekly).

*"A magical debut."* (Family Circle).

*"Captivating."* (Teen Vogue).

*"In The Land of Stories, Colfer showcases his talent for crafting fancifully imaginative plots and multidimensional characters."* (Los Angeles Times).

*"There's more in Colfer's magic kingdoms than Disney has dreamt of."* (USA Today).

## Editions

Foreign language editions

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