--- product_id: 257785834 title: "Ever After High: Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection" price: "€ 56.13" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/257785834-ever-after-high-once-upon-a-time-a-story-collection store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # 5 brand-new exclusive stories Legacy Year & fairy-tale destinies 12 enchanting short tales Ever After High: Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection **Price:** € 56.13 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the magic of legacy—where fairy tales meet your next obsession! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Ever After High: Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection - **How much does it cost?** € 56.13 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/257785834-ever-after-high-once-upon-a-time-a-story-collection) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Award-Winning Author’s Touch:** Crafted by Shannon Hale, a bestselling and Newbery honor-winning author, ensuring quality storytelling that resonates across generations. - • **Dive into 12 Exclusive Stories:** Unlock the magical world of Ever After High with a curated collection of 12 captivating tales, including 5 brand-new adventures you won’t find anywhere else. - • **Meet Your Favorite Characters Up Close:** Discover the personal lives and inner conflicts of iconic characters like Apple White, Raven Queen, and Cedar Wood before Legacy Day reshapes their destinies. - • **Perfect Blend of Fantasy & Relatable Drama:** Experience a fresh take on fairy tales where legacy meets choice, appealing to millennial professionals who appreciate layered storytelling and emotional depth. - • **A Must-Have for Ever After High Fans & Collectors:** Elevate your collection with this special edition that deepens your connection to the Ever After High universe, perfect for gifting or personal indulgence. ## Overview Ever After High: Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection is a beautifully curated anthology featuring 12 short stories, including 5 brand-new tales, that explore the lives and legacies of beloved characters from the Ever After High universe. Written by bestselling and Newbery honor-winning author Shannon Hale, this collection offers fans an exclusive glimpse into the characters’ personal journeys before Legacy Day, blending fantasy with relatable emotional conflicts. Highly rated and perfect for young readers and collectors alike, it enriches the Ever After High experience beyond the popular TV series. ## Description Read these exclusive introductions to all your favorite characters to find out what their lives are like at home! A new chapter is about to begin at Ever After High, and all the students are preparing to start their Legacy Year. In just a few weeks it will be Legacy Day when they will sign the Storybook of Legends and commit to live out their fairy-tale destiny, repeating the famous stories of their parents. This volume collects together for the first time 12 short tales, including five BRAND-NEW stories. For the first time, find out what Dexter and Darling Charming, Cedar Wood, Lizzie Hearts and Kitty Cheshire were doing just before school started. This collection also includes the stories of Apple White, Raven Queen, Madeline Hatter, Briar Beauty, Ashlynn Ella and Hunter Huntsman, and the fairy tale The Tale of Two Sisters, which were previously only available online. Don't miss this Once Upon a Time special edition of enchanting stories by bestselling and Newbery honor-winning author Shannon Hale. Review: Colorful and Mystical Story Journeys Laced With Fun - I admit that I’m mainly aware of the Ever After High series due to seeing the book and the dolls featured at my job around late 2013. I remember putting up one of the Ever After High dolls during the beginning weeks around the my job’s grand opening to the public. I was thinking that the summary of one of the dolls I saw does sound like a good cartoon to watch. Imagine my surprise when I did discover that there is both a cartoon and book series around the Ever After High Dolls. This book Ever After High once Upon A Time; A Story Collection by Shannon Hale is a fascinating and original read for both aspiring writers/scriptwriters and people who simply enjoy uplifting fantasy stories (including for children obviously). This book creatively tells various tales of offspring who are living a happy and enriching life but there is also understandable emotional conflict around wanting to avoid following in the family legacy if it is shadowy. For instance, the story of Apple White and The Ebony-Haired Legacy shows a girl who very much enjoys life while preparing to follow a destiny similar to her mother Snow White. Quirky pop culture references are shrewdly sprinkled and Snow White is mentioned as being a big music lover and an implied fan of One Reflection and their song You Don’t Know You’re Charming (I’m guessing a respectful tribute to One Direction’s You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful). Apple White enjoys listening to music on her Mirror Phone. Then there is the story of the Raven Queen and the Mirror Prison featuring Raven Queen, a direct descendant of the Evil Queen in the story of Snow White (due to Raven Queen being the Evil Queen’s daughter). Raven Queen loves her mother, but is understandably conflicted about following the dark destiny that her mother expects her to. Raven Queen is mentioned as being an implied fan of Tailor Quick because she is listening to a Tailor Quick album on her MirrorPod (I’m guessing polite homage to the Apple iphone and/or Apple ipod). Fortunately, the enjoyable cartoon series of Ever After High is currently available for free on Netflix and Youtube (although I’m currently unsure of how long it will be free). Watching the cartoon series gives an important creative glimpse into the characters and plot development of ever after high. For me, one of the reasons why I’m glad to have unexpectedly come across the series (as an aspiring writer/scriptwriter) is due to the brilliant and unique story development in an enchanting mystical world. Review: Great Fun to Read, Highly Recommend - A great read! I just finished reading this book to my 6 yr old the other day and it was pure delight for both of us. She'll no doubt read the books again when she's old enough (maybe 11 or 12), and she can finally catch the fun nuances she misses now. This book is definitely for people who are already familiar with the Ever After world. It provides satisfying insights into a number of characters, and for some characters adding whole new dimensions to them. As if Shannon Hale had to do anything more to make me her fan, this supplementary book is just delicious! Being an anthology, it's more lighthearted than her "Story Book of Legends" 3-book set, and easier to digest for my 6 yr old (though my daughter loves the trilogy too). There are so many intriguing characters in the Ever After world, it was great fun to get to know more of them better. I knew I'd enjoy this book, and I still enjoyed it more than expected. The stories really serve to deepen ones sense of the characters, especially providing richness to the minor characters that we rarely hear about enough. As a bonus, it included the first 2 chapters of Ever After High: Next Top Villian by Suzanne Selfors. Selfors' writing style is different than Hale's of course, but I think it seems consistent enough that if you get hooked on the books by one author, you'll enjoy the books from the other, too. I must admit that for me, the books have ruined the TV show because it just pales in comparison to Hale's books. For my 6 yr old, the books heightened her love of the TV show. Regardless, we both are enjoying this Ever After world that Matel created, and I'm grateful they hired such top talent to bring it all together. See my review of the Story Book of Legends 3 book set for more detail on why I love, love, love Ever After High! ## Features - Little brown books for young readers ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #119,348 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #675 in Short Stories for Children #1,657 in Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths for Children #3,294 in Children's Books on Friendship | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 345 Reviews | ## Images ![Ever After High: Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/9106ozS9N8L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Colorful and Mystical Story Journeys Laced With Fun *by S***R on 17 July 2015* I admit that I’m mainly aware of the Ever After High series due to seeing the book and the dolls featured at my job around late 2013. I remember putting up one of the Ever After High dolls during the beginning weeks around the my job’s grand opening to the public. I was thinking that the summary of one of the dolls I saw does sound like a good cartoon to watch. Imagine my surprise when I did discover that there is both a cartoon and book series around the Ever After High Dolls. This book Ever After High once Upon A Time; A Story Collection by Shannon Hale is a fascinating and original read for both aspiring writers/scriptwriters and people who simply enjoy uplifting fantasy stories (including for children obviously). This book creatively tells various tales of offspring who are living a happy and enriching life but there is also understandable emotional conflict around wanting to avoid following in the family legacy if it is shadowy. For instance, the story of Apple White and The Ebony-Haired Legacy shows a girl who very much enjoys life while preparing to follow a destiny similar to her mother Snow White. Quirky pop culture references are shrewdly sprinkled and Snow White is mentioned as being a big music lover and an implied fan of One Reflection and their song You Don’t Know You’re Charming (I’m guessing a respectful tribute to One Direction’s You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful). Apple White enjoys listening to music on her Mirror Phone. Then there is the story of the Raven Queen and the Mirror Prison featuring Raven Queen, a direct descendant of the Evil Queen in the story of Snow White (due to Raven Queen being the Evil Queen’s daughter). Raven Queen loves her mother, but is understandably conflicted about following the dark destiny that her mother expects her to. Raven Queen is mentioned as being an implied fan of Tailor Quick because she is listening to a Tailor Quick album on her MirrorPod (I’m guessing polite homage to the Apple iphone and/or Apple ipod). Fortunately, the enjoyable cartoon series of Ever After High is currently available for free on Netflix and Youtube (although I’m currently unsure of how long it will be free). Watching the cartoon series gives an important creative glimpse into the characters and plot development of ever after high. For me, one of the reasons why I’m glad to have unexpectedly come across the series (as an aspiring writer/scriptwriter) is due to the brilliant and unique story development in an enchanting mystical world. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Fun to Read, Highly Recommend *by C***R on 26 May 2017* A great read! I just finished reading this book to my 6 yr old the other day and it was pure delight for both of us. She'll no doubt read the books again when she's old enough (maybe 11 or 12), and she can finally catch the fun nuances she misses now. This book is definitely for people who are already familiar with the Ever After world. It provides satisfying insights into a number of characters, and for some characters adding whole new dimensions to them. As if Shannon Hale had to do anything more to make me her fan, this supplementary book is just delicious! Being an anthology, it's more lighthearted than her "Story Book of Legends" 3-book set, and easier to digest for my 6 yr old (though my daughter loves the trilogy too). There are so many intriguing characters in the Ever After world, it was great fun to get to know more of them better. I knew I'd enjoy this book, and I still enjoyed it more than expected. The stories really serve to deepen ones sense of the characters, especially providing richness to the minor characters that we rarely hear about enough. As a bonus, it included the first 2 chapters of Ever After High: Next Top Villian by Suzanne Selfors. Selfors' writing style is different than Hale's of course, but I think it seems consistent enough that if you get hooked on the books by one author, you'll enjoy the books from the other, too. I must admit that for me, the books have ruined the TV show because it just pales in comparison to Hale's books. For my 6 yr old, the books heightened her love of the TV show. Regardless, we both are enjoying this Ever After world that Matel created, and I'm grateful they hired such top talent to bring it all together. See my review of the Story Book of Legends 3 book set for more detail on why I love, love, love Ever After High! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hexellent *by D***A on 30 May 2024* I loved it, but why are there 2 books in the pictures??? ## Frequently Bought Together - Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection (Ever After High) - Ever After High: The Unfairest of Them All --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/257785834-ever-after-high-once-upon-a-time-a-story-collection](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/257785834-ever-after-high-once-upon-a-time-a-story-collection) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-07-07*