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Oct 2003, 544 pages
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Jun 2005, 560 pages
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Characters from books literally leap off the page in this engrossing, action-packed fantasy by the author of The Thief Lord.
From the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Thief
Lord comes a thrilling new adventure about magic and self-discovery.
Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a bookbinder. But her father
has a deep secret -- he possesses an extraordinary magical power. One cruel
night, as Meggie's father reads a book called Inkheart aloud, an evil
ruler named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their
living room. Suddenly, the two are plunged into the kind of adventure Meggie has
only encountered in fiction, and they must somehow learn to harness the magic
they were reading about to change the course of the story -- before it ruins
their lives forever.
Chapter 1
A Stranger in
the Night
The moon shone in the rocking horse's eye, and in the mouse's
eye, too, when Tolly fetched it out from under his pillow to
see. The clock went tick-tock, and in the stillness he thought
he heard little bare feet running across the floor, then laughter
and whispering, and a sound like the pages of a big book
being turned over.
L. M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe
Rain fell that night, a fine, whispering rain. Many years later,
Meggie had only to close her eyes and she could still hear it,
like tiny fingers tapping on the windowpane. A dog barked
somewhere in the darkness, and however often she tossed and
turned Meggie couldn't get to sleep.
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing
its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
"I'm sure it must be very comfortable sleeping with a hard, rectangular
thing like that under your head," her father had teased
the first time...
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Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, Westphalia. Although she is one of Germany''s best-selling children's book authors, she was relatively unknown in the United States until The Chicken House, whose books are published by Scholastic in the United States, published The Thief Lord in September 2002. The Chicken House's publisher and managing director, Barry Cunningham, received a letter from a bilingual (English and German) young girl living in England, who wanted to know why her favorite author wasn't published in English. Barry set about the task of tracking down the latest title from Cornelia Funke, Herr Der Diebe. When he published its...
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