Once Upon a Time Volume II

Henry: These books, they all look exactly like my storybook.
Violet: They're magic. What are they doing in New York?

—Henry and Violet^src

Once Upon a Time Volume II^[1] is a book featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the twenty-second episode of the fifth season.

History

After Third Curse

During Henry and Violet's quest to erase magic for good, they follow a clue from Neal's journal to the the New York Public Library, where they find innumerable storybooks. Henry notices each of them look the same as his own storybook and opens once called Once Upon a Time Volume II, which contains stories different from his. After looking through all of the storybooks, he and Violet do not find anything in them about how to destroy magic. ("Only You")

While the heroes and their new ally Dr. Jekyll rest up at Neal's old apartment, Jekyll looks at an illustration in the book, showing his old nemesis Mr. Hyde. As he closes the book, he expresses his relief at finally being separated from his alter ego. ("An Untold Story")

David tries to maintain order by directing the Land of Untold Stories residents to food and shelter in the diner and inn. This causes unrest among the newcomers until Regina welcomes them to Storybrooke. Holding the storybook, she tells them to not be fearful of their stories playing out because she will brave the unknown with them. Henry then attempts to use the book to discover a stranger's name, however, the man tells him that he isn't important enough to have his own story. ("A Bitter Draught")

As Emma, Henry and Hook attempt to find Ashley, Emma mentions her knack for finding people by trying to decipher their stories. Henry realizes the storybook can tell them how Ashley's stepsister Clorinda's story was supposed to end, and this will reveal Ashley's location. They manage to track down Ashley and Clorinda at the Storybrooke Pumpkin Farm. ("The Other Shoe")

Trivia

On-Screen Notes

Stories and Illustrations

When Henry is flipping through the storybook in the New York Public Library, the following stories and illustrations are seen: ("Only You")

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

Chapter I^[2] of Gulliver's Travels, with an illustration of Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians (unseen text is set in fuchsia):

I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the
weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as
I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep. I
lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft,
where I slept sounder than ever I remembered to have
done in my life, and, as I reckoned, about nine hours;
for when I awaked, it was just day-light. I attempted to
rise, but was not able to stir: for, as I happened to lie
on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly
fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which
was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I
likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from
my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look
upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light
offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me;
but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the
sky. In a little time I felt something alive moving on my
left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast,
came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes
downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a
human creature not six inches high, with a bow and
arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back. In the
mean time, I felt at least forty more of the same kind (…)

The picture is based on an old illustration from an obscure children's book from 1883, called Gulliver's Travels: Coloured Picture Book for the Nursery; notice the near identical background, the identical outfit, etc.:

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, ABRIDGED EDITION

Chapter XIX of an abridged edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,^[3] from the book Works of Jules Verne, Volume 5 (link to page), translated into English by Charles F. Horne in 1911. Note that chapter XIX "Torres Straits" of the abridged edition does not correspond to the complete, unabridged edition, where the chapter "Torres Straits" is chapter 20, not 19.^[4] Note that the excerpt on page two actually takes place before the excerpt on page one in the original version:

PAGE ONE

Captain Nemo looked at me curiously, and made a nega-
tive gesture, as much as to say that nothing would force
him to set foot on terra firma again. Then he said:
"Besides, M. Aronnax, the Nautilus is not lost; it will
carry you yet into the midst of the marvels of the ocean.
Our voyage is only begun, and I do not wish to be
deprived so soon of the honour of your company."
"However, Captain Nemo," I replied, without noticing
the ironical turn of his phrase, "the Nautilus ran
aground in open sea. Now the tides are not strong in
the Pacific; and, if you cannot lighten the Nautilus, I do
not see how it will be reinflated."
"The tides are not strong in the Pacific: you are right
there, Professor; but in Torres Straits one finds still a
difference of a yard and a half between the level of high
and low seas. To-day is 4th January, and in five days
the moon will be full. Now, I shall be very much aston-
ished if that satellite does not raise these masses of water
sufficiently, and render me a service that I should be
indebted to her for."
Having said this, Captain Nemo, followed by his lieu-
tenant, redescended to the interior of the Nautilus. As to
the vessel, it moved not, and was immovable.

PAGE TWO
(unseen text is set in fuchsia)

The Captain must be very sure of his route, for I see
there pieces of coral that would do for its keel if it only
touched them slightly."
Indeed the situation was dangerous, but the Nautilus
seemed to slide like magic off these rocks. It did not
follow the routes of the Astrolabe and the Zelee exactly,
for they proved fatal to Dumont d'Urville. It bore more
northwards, coasted the Islands of Murray, and came
back to the south-west towards Cumberland Passage. I
thought it was going to pass it by, when, going back to
north-west, it went through a large quantity of islands
and islets little known, towards the Island Sound and
Canal Mauvais.
I wondered if Captain Nemo, foolishly imprudent, would
steer his vessel into that pass where Dumont d'Urville's
two corvettes touched; when, swerving again, and cut-
ting straight through to the west, he steered for the
Island of Gilboa.
It was then three in the afternoon. The tide began to
recede, being quite full. The Nautilus approached the
island, that I still saw, with its remarkable border of
screw-pines. He stood off it at about two miles distant.
Suddenly a shock overthrew me. The Nautilus just (…)

The accompanying illustration, which shows Captain Nemo taking observations of the deck of the Nautilus, is called "Le capitaine Nemo prit la hauteur du soleil." ("Captain Nemo took the altitude of the sun.") and is from an 1871 French edition of the book (link to page), illustrated by the French painter Alphonse de Neuville and the French painter and illustrator Édouard Riou.

THE WATER BABIES

Chapter IV^[5] of Charles Kingsley's children's novel The Water-Babies. Note that once again, the excerpt on page two actually takes place before the excerpt on page one in the original version; in addition, the text on page one also appears on a different page next to an illustration of Mr. Hyde's hospital:

PAGE ONE

But the professor had gone, I am sorry to say, even
further than that; for he had read at the British Associa-
tion at Melbourne, Australia, in the year 1999, a paper
which assured every one who found himself the better or
wiser for the news, that there were not, never had been,
and could not be, any rational or half-rational beings
except men, anywhere, anywhen, or anyhow; that
nymphs, satyrs, fauns, inui, dwarfs, trolls, elves, gnomes,
fairies, brownies, nixes, wills, kobolds, leprechaunes,
cluricaunes, banshees, will-o’-the-wisps, follets, lutins,
magots, goblins, afrits, marids, jinns, ghouls, peris,
deevs, angels, archangels, imps, bogies, or worse, were
nothing at all, and pure bosh and wind. And he had to
get up very early in the morning to prove that, and to
eat his breakfast overnight; but he did it, at least to his
own satisfaction. Whereon a certain great divine, and a
very clever divine was he, called him a regular Saddu-
cee; and probably he was quite right. Whereon the
professor, in return, called him a regular Pharisee; and
probably he was quite right too. But they did not quarrel
in the least; for, when men are men of the world, hard
words run off them like water off a duck’s back. So the
professor and the divine met at dinner that evening, and

sat together on the sofa afterwards for an hour, and
talked over the state of female labour on the antarctic
continent (for nobody talks shop after his claret), and
each vowed that the other was the best company he ever
met in his life. What an advantage it is to be men of the
world!
From all which you may guess that the professor was not
the least of little Ellie's opinion. So he gave her a suc-
cinct compendium of his famous paper at the British
Association, in a form suited for the youthful mind. But,
as we have gone over his arguments against water-babies
once already, which is once too often, we will not repeat
them here.
Now little Ellie was, I suppose, a stupid little girl; for,
instead of being convinced by Professor Ptthmllnsprts'
arguments, she only asked the same question over again.
"But why are there not water-babies?"*
"Because there ain't."

PAGE TWO
(unseen text is set in fuchsia)

The moon shone so bright that Tom could see every
feature; and, as he saw, he recollected, bit by bit, it was
his old master, Grimes.
Tom turned tail, and swam away as fast as he could.
“Oh dear me!” he thought, “now he will turn into a
water-baby. What a nasty troublesome one he will be!
And perhaps he will find me out, and beat me again.”
So he went up the river again a little way, and lay there
the rest of the night under an alder root; but, when
morning came, he longed to go down again to the big
pool, and see whether Mr. Grimes had turned into a
water-baby yet.
So he went very carefully, peeping round all the
rocks, and hiding under all the roots. Mr. Grimes lay
there still; he had not turned into a water-baby. In the
afternoon Tom went back again. He could not rest till he
had found out what had become of Mr. Grimes. But this
time Mr. Grimes was gone; and Tom made up his mind
that he was turned into a water-baby.
He might have made himself easy, poor little man; Mr.
Grimes did not turn into a water-baby, or anything like
one at all. But he did not make himself easy; and a long
time he was fearful lest he should meet Grimes suddenly (…)

*Between "But why are there not water-babies?" and "Because there ain't.," there is a paragraph which has been omitted from the book: "I trust and hope that it was because the professor trod at that moment on the edge of a very sharp mussel, and hurt one of his corns sadly, that he answered quite sharply, forgetting that he was a scientific man, and therefore ought to have known that he couldn't know; and that he was a logician, and therefore ought to have known that he could not prove a universal negative — I say, I trust and hope it was because the mussel hurt his corn, that the professor answered quite sharply:"

The illustration of Mr. Hyde's hospital is adapted from a shot of the Land of Untold Stories:

DON QUIXOTE

Chapter VIII^[6] of Don Quixote. Unseen text is set in fuchsia:

At this point they came in sight of thirty forty
windmills that there are on plain, and as soon
as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire,
"Fortune is arranging matters for us better
than we could have shaped our desires
ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where
thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all
of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with
whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; for
this is righteous warfare, and it is God’s good service to
sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth."
"What giants?" said Sancho Panza.
"Those thou seest there," answered his master, "with
the long arms, and some have them nearly two leagues
long."
"Look, your worship,” said Sancho; "what we see there
are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their
arms are the sails that turned by the wind make the
millstone go."
"It is easy to see,” replied Don Quixote, "that thou art
not used to this business of adventures; those are giants (…)

The accompanying illustration is a colorized version of a picture from the retelling Stories of Don Quixote: Written Anew for Children (1910) (link to page), written by James Baldwin and illustrated by G.A. Harker. It shows Don Quixote fighting windmills that he imagines are giants.

"PAUL BUNYAN"

The "Paul Bunyan" folktale, accompanied by an illustration of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. The story in the book is adapted from a version of the folktale which can be found on several online websites:^[7]

ORIGINAL VERSION	SHOW VERSION (differences are highlighted)
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As a child, Paul was always hungry. His parents needed tens cows to supply milk for his meals. Before long, he ate fifty eggs and ten containers of potatoes every day. Young Paul grew so big that his parents did not know what to do with him. Once, Paul rolled over so much in his sleep that he caused an earthquake.	His appetite match[image ends] hungry. His pare[image ends] to supply enough [image ends] long, he ate fifty e[image ends] every single day. Young Paul grew [image ends] did not know wha[image ends] time that Paul rolle[image ends] caused an earthqua[image ends]

The picture is based on a watercolor painting by the comic/freelance artist Chad Lewis.^[8]

A title page reads "THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE.," a reference to the story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (the actual title does not begin with the word "the"). ("Only You")

An original illustration of Mr. Hyde is seen when Dr. Jekyll is looking through the book in Neal's apartment. The text on the opposite page is illegible. ("An Untold Story")

The illustration "The Meeting of Oberon and Titania" can be seen in the storybook, however, the angle makes it very unclear. It was created for (but ultimately not used in) a 1908 edition of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. ("A Bitter Draught")
- The same illustration can be seen in Henry's storybook in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" and "The Snow Queen."**A cut-out from this illustration, showing only Titania, can be seen in Henry's room in "A Land Without Magic."^[9]
- Another cut-out can be seen on one of the missing person posters outside the Storybrooke Town Hall when people are searching for their loved ones after the breaking of the Dark Curse in "We Are Both."^[10]

"CINDERELLA"

When Henry is looking for a clue to finding Clorinda's happy ending, he looks up a page with a micro-excerpt from the Brothers Grimm's version of the "Cinderella" fairytale, glimpsed next to an illustration of the titular character. Very little is seen on-screen, but the text can be seen in its entirety on a prop page that was auctioned off online.^[11] The text is directly copied from an online translation by Professor D. L. Ashliman of the University of Pittsburgh,^[12] however, the name "Cinderella" has been replaced with "Ella," the character's real name on Once Upon a Time (unseen text is set in fuchsia): ("The Other Shoe")

Ella thanked him, went to her
mother's grave, and planted
the branch on it, and she wept
so much that her tears fell upon
it and watered it. It grew and
became a beautiful tree.
Ella went to this tree three times
every day, and beneath it she wept and prayed. A
white bird came to the tree every time, and whenever
she expressed a wish, the bird would throw down to
her what she had wished for.
Now it happened that the king proclaimed a festival
that was to last three days. All the beautiful young girls
in the land were invited, so that his son could select a
bride for himself. When the two stepsisters heard that
they too had been invited, they were in high spirits.
They called Ella, saying, "Comb our hair for us. Brush
our shoes and fasten our buckles. We are going to the
festival at the king's castle."
Ella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have
liked to go to the dance with them. She begged her
stepmother to allow her to go.
"You, Ella?" she said. "You, all covered with dust and
dirt, and you want to go to the festival?. You have

neither clothes nor shoes, and yet you want to dance!"
However, because Ella kept asking, the stepmother finally
said, "I have scattered a bowl of lentils into the ashes for
you. If you can pick them out again in two hours, then
you may go with us."
The girl went through the back door into the garden, and
called out, "You tame pigeons, you turtledoves, and all
you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to gather:

The good ones go into the pot,
The bad ones go into your crop."

Two white pigeons came in through the kitchen window,
and then the turtledoves, and finally all the birds beneath
the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit around
the ashes. The pigeons nodded their heads and began to
pick, pick, pick, pick. And the others also began to
pick, pick, pick, pick. They gathered all the good grains
into the bowl. Hardly one hour had passed before they
were finished, and they all flew out again.
The girl took the bowl to her stepmother, and was
happy, thinking that now she would be allowed to go to
the festival with them.

The accompanying illustration of the titular character is a book to live action transition:

Appearances

Once Upon a Time: Season Five
"The Dark Swan":	"The Price":	"Siege Perilous":	"The Broken Kingdom":	"Dreamcatcher":	"The Bear and the Bow":	"Nimue":	"Birth":	"The Bear King":	"Broken Heart":	"Swan Song":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Souls of the Departed":	"Labor of Love":	"Devil's Due":	"The Brothers Jones":	"Our Decay":	"Her Handsome Hero":	"Ruby Slippers":	"Sisters":	"Firebird":	"Last Rites":	"Only You":	"An Untold Story":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Appears

Once Upon a Time: Season Six
"The Savior":	"A Bitter Draught":	"The Other Shoe":	"Strange Case":	"Street Rats":	"Dark Waters":	"Heartless":	"I'll Be Your Mirror":	"Changelings":	"Wish You Were Here":	"Tougher Than the Rest":
Absent	Appears	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Murder Most Foul":	"Ill-Boding Patterns":	"Page 23":	"A Wondrous Place":	"Mother's Little Helper":	"Awake":	"Where Bluebirds Fly":	"The Black Fairy":	"The Song in Your Heart":	"The Final Battle Part 1":	"The Final Battle Part 2":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

References

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↑ Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift: Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput. Chapter I.. University of Adelaide. Archived from the original on September 14, 2015. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. “I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep. (...)”
↑ Project Gutenberg's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (slightly abridged), by Jules Verne. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved on September 22, 2020. “CHAPTER XIX: TORRES STRAITS. "The Captain must be very sure of his route, for I see there pieces of coral that would do for its keel if it only touched them slightly." (...) / Captain Nemo looked at me curiously, and made a negative gesture, as much as to say that nothing would force him to set foot on terra firma again. Then he said: (...)” (This eBook contains the text that appears in the storybook)
↑ The Project Gutenberg eBook, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne, Translated by Frederick Paul Walter, Illustrated by Milo Winter. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved on September 22, 2020. “CHAPTER 20. The Torres Strait. (...) “That damned captain,” the Canadian went on, “must really be sure of his course, because if these clumps of coral so much as brush us, they'll rip our hull into a thousand pieces!” (...) / Captain Nemo gave me an odd look and gestured no. Which told me pretty clearly that nothing would ever force him to set foot on a land mass again. Then he said: (...)” (Note: This eBook contains a different text than the one that appears in the storybook, because it has a different translator)
↑ The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley: Chapter IV. University of Adelaide. Archived from the original on September 14, 2015. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. “The moon shone so bright that Tom could see every feature; and, as he saw, he recollected, bit by bit, it was his old master, Grimes. (...) / But the professor had gone, I am sorry to say, even further than that; for he had read at the British Association at Melbourne, Australia, in the year 1999, a paper which assured every one who found himself the better or wiser for the news, that there were not (...)”
↑ Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes: Chapter VIII.. University of Adelaide. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. “(...) ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; (...)”
↑ Such as this web page, which is part of a website about helping children learn:
The Story of Paul Bunyan. Loving2Learn. Retrieved on January 15, 2019.
↑ CHAD LEWIS ILLUSTRATION. Chad Lewis. Retrieved on November 3, 2019.
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↑ Once Upon a Time - Set of Storybook Pages (3141). iCollector (September 8, 2019). Archived from the original on September 3, 2021. (File:603Prop4.jpg)
↑ D. L. Ashliman (June 1, 2011). Cinderella. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. University of Pittsburgh. “Cinderella thanked him, went to her mother's grave, and planted the branch on it, and she wept so much that her tears fell upon it and watered it. It grew and became a beautiful tree. (...)”

[1] File:602InThisBook.png

[2] Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift: Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput. Chapter I.. University of Adelaide. Archived from the original on September 14, 2015. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. “I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep. (...)”

[3] Project Gutenberg's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (slightly abridged), by Jules Verne. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved on September 22, 2020. “CHAPTER XIX: TORRES STRAITS. "The Captain must be very sure of his route, for I see there pieces of coral that would do for its keel if it only touched them slightly." (...) / Captain Nemo looked at me curiously, and made a negative gesture, as much as to say that nothing would force him to set foot on terra firma again. Then he said: (...)” (This eBook contains the text that appears in the storybook)

[4] The Project Gutenberg eBook, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne, Translated by Frederick Paul Walter, Illustrated by Milo Winter. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved on September 22, 2020. “CHAPTER 20. The Torres Strait. (...) “That damned captain,” the Canadian went on, “must really be sure of his course, because if these clumps of coral so much as brush us, they'll rip our hull into a thousand pieces!” (...) / Captain Nemo gave me an odd look and gestured no. Which told me pretty clearly that nothing would ever force him to set foot on a land mass again. Then he said: (...)” (Note: This eBook contains a different text than the one that appears in the storybook, because it has a different translator)

[5] The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley: Chapter IV. University of Adelaide. Archived from the original on September 14, 2015. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. “The moon shone so bright that Tom could see every feature; and, as he saw, he recollected, bit by bit, it was his old master, Grimes. (...) / But the professor had gone, I am sorry to say, even further than that; for he had read at the British Association at Melbourne, Australia, in the year 1999, a paper which assured every one who found himself the better or wiser for the news, that there were not (...)”

[6] Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes: Chapter VIII.. University of Adelaide. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. “(...) ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; (...)”

[7] Such as this web page, which is part of a website about helping children learn:
The Story of Paul Bunyan. Loving2Learn. Retrieved on January 15, 2019.

[8] CHAD LEWIS ILLUSTRATION. Chad Lewis. Retrieved on November 3, 2019.

[9] File:122SomethingsComing.png (number two from the left in the top row)

[10] File:202HasASignUpSheet.png

[11] Once Upon a Time - Set of Storybook Pages (3141). iCollector (September 8, 2019). Archived from the original on September 3, 2021. (File:603Prop4.jpg)

[12] D. L. Ashliman (June 1, 2011). Cinderella. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. University of Pittsburgh. “Cinderella thanked him, went to her mother's grave, and planted the branch on it, and she wept so much that her tears fell upon it and watered it. It grew and became a beautiful tree. (...)”

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