the story of the frog and the ox
The Frog and the Ox The Frog and the Ox appears among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 376 in the Perry Index.[1] The story concerns a frog that tries to inflate itself to the size of an ox, but bursts in the attempt. It has usually been applied to socio-economic relations.
The Land of Stories A year has gone by since Alex and Conner Bailey suffered the tragic loss of their father. Their mother, is trying to balance her job and her family after her husband was killed in a car accident. On the birthday of Alex and Connor, their grandmother sends them a very old book. Alex later finds out that the book mysteriously glows. Against Connor's advise to throw the book away, Alex keeps the book and reaches into the book. Connor barges in to stop Alex, but Alex loses her balance and falls into the book. Connor jumps in as well. They found out the book was a portal to the fairy-tale world. They then met Froggy , a man turned into a frog. Froggy gives them a journal that tells of the Wishing Spell,a spell that can grant whatever wish the person wants if the person has eight items. In order to get back to their world, Alex and Connor must find the things of the Wishing Spell. But bad news quickly follows. They later met another person who was later identified as the Huntsman's daughter. Alex and Connor realise that the Huntsman's daughter is working for the Evil Queen to get the Wishing spell as well, and worse, since the Wishing Spell can only be used twice, and the author of the journal about the Wishing Spell had already used it once, it could be only used once more, yet there are two contestents. The Evil Queen gets this message from her magic mirror as well, so there begins a desperate race to get the Wishing Spell.When they are getting the ingredients for the Wishing spell, Alex and Connor comes across many tales that their father had told them. After a while, they had to face the conclusion that their father came from the Fairy-tale world. Finally, when Alex and Connor had gotten all the items of the Wishing spell, the Evil Queen kidnapped them and the items of the Wishing spell, and went to her hiding place, in the north of the Sleeping kingdom. There, Alex tried to prevent the Evil Queen from using the Wishing Spell by smashing the container of fairy tears, one of the items needed in the Wishing Spell. The Evil Queen then told the story of where she came from. When the Evil Queen was little, she was named Evly, and she was a very kind and caring girl. She met Mira, and she fell in love with him. But the enchantress captured her, and stopped her from meeting Mira. Evly tried to send secret messages to Mira, but the Enchantress found out, and imprisoned Mira in a mirror. Evly later killed the Enchantress, but she couldn't do anything to bring Mira back, until she found out the Wishing spell. By then, Alex and Connor were crying. The Evil Queen got a bit of Alex's tears, put it with the items of the Wishing Spell, and somehow the Wishing spell worked. Mira was freed from the magic mirror, but just then the rescue team, led by Froggy, arrived. Mira died in Evly's arms, and they are both swallowed up by the mirror. In the fighting that follows, the Huntsman and his daughter were killed, and Alex and Connor were rescued. Froggy was found to be cursed and was actually prince charlie from the Charming kingdom, and Alex and Connor learned that their grandmother is the Fairy Godmother, who is capable of making portals between the Otherworld and the fairy-tale world, and the journal written by a man who had successfully completed the Wishing Spell years before when he fell in love with a woman on Earth belonged to their father. Therefore, Alex and Conner are part fairy. Alex and Conner get back to their mother through a portal made by their grandmother into the Otherworld in the end.