Once Upon a Time (Novel)

"You know, I didn't exactly write Harry Potter. Or anything since that one book."

- Henry to Lucy

The Once Upon a Time Novel is an item featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the twenty-second episode of the sixth season.

Trivia

 * -|On-Screen Notes=

On-Screen Notes

 * There is an illustration of an apple tree on the cover of Henry's novel. This is a reference to his adoptive mother's apple tree.
 * The book blurb for Henry's novel is a slightly modified version of a synopsis for the show, which can be found on several online websites. The original synopsis reads thus:

''For Emma Swan, life has been anything but a happy ending. But when she's reunited with Henry - the son she gave up for adoption ten years ago - on the night of her 28th birth- day, everything changes. The now 10-year-old Henry is in desperate need of Emma's help because he believes from reading a book of fairytales that she's the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming - who sent her away from the Enchanted Forest to be protected from a curse that was enacted by the Evil Queen.'' ''Emma initially refuses to believe a word of Henry's story but soon finds that his hometown of Story- Brooke, Maine is more than it seems. Because it's in Story- brooke that all of the classic characters we know are frozen in time with no memories of their former selves – except for the Evil Queen, who is Storybrooke's mayor and Henry's adoptive mother Regina Mills.'' Now, as the epic "Final Battle" for the future of both worlds approaches, Emma will have to accept her destiny and uncover the mystery behind a place where fairytales are to be believed.


 * The show version reads (differences are set in red ):

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 * The text page next to Emma's illustration is a retelling of the scene where Emma leaves the Underworld in the Season Five episode "Firebird". It reads:

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