Due to the rising success of her books, Funke is already being hailed as Germany's J. The novel won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature. Meggie, a girl at the age of 12, sees a stranger staring at her outside her window and tells her father, Mortimer (or Mo, as Meggie calls him) about it. Inkheart (German: Tintenherz) is a 2003 young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the Inkheart series, which was continued with Inkspell (2005) and Inkdeath (2007). Their lives change with the arrival of a stranger and Meggie is quickly involved in a breathless game of escape and intrigue as her father's life is put in danger.īasis for the major motion picture with the same title. Inkheart is a 2003 young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the Inkheart trilogy.

The US edition (published October 1) preceded the UK edition by five days.Ĭornelia Funke's first book of the trilogy in which she the introduces a tale of adventure and magic with Meggie, a young girl living a quiet life with her father, a book-binder who possesses the magical power to bring characters from books to life. Only additional title listed opposite from title page is 'The Thief Lord', no mention of additional titles, dust-jacket priced at $19.95. In Funkes ( The Thief Lord ) delectably thick and transfixing fantasy, 12-year-old Meggie learns that when her bookbinder father, Mo, reads a book aloud. A stunning first US edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED and dated (in European format 15/11/03, she is German) by author Cornelia Funke directly on the title page. So while Funkes novel is an actual book, no actual book version of the Inkheart that Meggie and Mo read exists in the real world.

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