In Storybrooke, Maine, Emma Swan and Mary Margaret Blanchard are friends and roommates. They're united in their mission to make life better for Henry, Emma's young son, who has been raised by Storybrooke's vicious mayor, Regina Mills. Henry is convinced that Mary Margaret and Emma are more than just roommates, however. He believes they're family-mother and daughter fairy-tale characters exiled from their enchanted forest by an evil curse. And he's right: Mary Margaret is Snow White, and Emma is her daughter.

In this companion book to the hit ABC television show Once Upon A Time, Emma and Snow tell their own stories, in their own words, for the first time. With Emma relating her time in Storybrooke and Snow narrating the events of fairytale land, present and future fans of the show will get a whole new look at their favorite characters and stories.

Show description from ABC:

"From the inventive minds of Lost executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, the show is a bold new imagining of the world where fairy tales and the modern world collide: 28-year-old Emma Swan is shocked when Henry, the son she gave up, shows up on her doorstep after 10 years in desperate need of her help. He believes she actually comes from an alternate world and is Snow White and Prince Charming's missing daughter. According to his book of fairytales, they sent Emma away to protect her from the Evil Queen's curse, which trapped the fairy tale world frozen in time and brought them into our modern world. Emma is skeptical, but when she brings Henry back to his hometown of Storybrook, she is drawn to this boy and his strange story, soon suspecting that the town is more than it seems. It's a place where magic has been forgotten, but is still powerfully close; where fairytale characters are alive, even though they don't remember who they once were. The epic battle for the future of all worlds is beginning, but for good to win, Emma will have to accept her destiny and join the fight."

愛德華•凱特西斯和亞當•霍洛維茨是經典美劇《迷失》（Lost）的製作人，而美劇《童話鎮》是由他們兩位共同打造的熱播美劇。其創作富有想象力，同時也充滿瞭對現實人生的深切反思。

奧黛特•比奈（Odette Beane），美國暢銷文學作傢，代錶作《童話鎮》已被改編為美劇熱播。其作品極具現代氣息，且富於哲思，將傳統的童話和傳說故事巧妙地進行瞭改寫，並完美融入瞭現代的倫理反思。

譯者王虹，廣東外語外貿大學教授。主要研究興趣為莎士比亞戲劇與英國詩歌。所編教材及學術專著主要有《英國文學閱讀與欣賞》《二十世紀英國文學選讀》《英國當代社會與文化》（編著）、《戲劇文體分析》等，譯有《馬爾剋斯評傳》等。