The books give a feel about them as it used to feel about the pirates in Treasure Island that is a book frequently mentioned in Inkheart. The characters in this book may appeal more if they seemed more real, but unfortunately, the characters are not real as they must be shown. The book have fairies, trolls, dire beasts and magic in it, when the villains are at last defeated and the denizens of the book tumble into reality. Cornelia Maria Funke is a German author of Children fiction.
Funke is best known for her Inkheart trilogy, published in I will definitely recommend this book to young adult, fantasy lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Instead of duplicating Inkheart, Funke has actually recorded truth grit of the Inkworld, where it is populated by dreadful people that live for death as well as anguish. Funke, that some call the German J.
Rowling, is comparable in the sense that she grows her story in addition to her personalities. Skip to content AudioBooks. Search for:. Toni Morrison — Song of Solomon Audiobook. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever. Dare to read it aloud. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published May 1st by Scholastic Paperbacks first published September 23rd More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Inkheart , please sign up. Drew Probably like age range. However, I believe books have no "age" requirement, just a "want" requirement. I hope you enjoy the book! Is there any material in this book that would make it inappropriate for a younger reader? Donna The swearing involves one word repeated in one part of the book. So …more The swearing involves one word repeated in one part of the book.
I let my son read it and he loved it. There is no real romance or making out. There is mention of blood and dead roosters being left to frighten people. The bad men also use gasoline to burn things or to scare people into obeying the main bad guy.
See all 29 questions about Inkheart…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Inkheart Inkworld, 1. Nov 07, Miranda Reads rated it it was amazing Shelves: audiobook , absolute-favorites. Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them. Magic, this book is pure unadulterated magic. Meggie and Mo her father are a pair.
They're two peas in a pod, they're a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, they're ice cream and sprinkles. No matter what - they are together. When a mysterious man from Mo's past shows up on their doorstep, he packs up al Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them. When a mysterious man from Mo's past shows up on their doorstep, he packs up all of their things and whisks Maggie away to to her Aunt Elinor's house.
And, despite all their efforts, evil is circling ever closer to their little family and Maggie is at a complete loss at what to do. She's read countless stories of heroines That will take pure bravery and nerves of steel There is something inexplicable about the way Funke weaves magic into her novel.
Even after all these years, as soon as I read this book, I check the garden for fairies and glassmen. There's something so heartwarming and true regarding the dynamic between Maggie and her father, Mo. Even the crankiness of Eleanor as she begrudgingly takes in Maggie is enough to set my eyes alight as I read, and reread this book. Perhaps, it is because for the first time characters in a book loved reading as much as I do When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
Honestly, every quote in this book just speaks to me: Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Highly, highly recommended for kids and adults of all ages! Audiobook Comments Read by Lynn Redgrave - and she did a rather good job. Nice characterization! View all 36 comments. May 21, Jessica rated it it was ok Shelves: kids , tried-and-couldnt-finish , borrowed-from-library. And the premise, that characters can exist in the "real world" outside of books, or that real people can enter the world inside a book, is endlessly appealing.
However, my local library is on the verge of opening a new wing with my overdue book fines on this, because I keep hanging onto it in the hope that eventually I will be able to finish reading it. I think it's just not going to happen. First of all, there is something very stilted and anachronistic in the writing, and I can't tell whether that's just Cornelia Funke, or a result of the translation work.
Also, the book is simply too long. It takes pages for anything to begin to happen, and that's much too long, even for an adult book. I blame J. Rowling for this kind of bloating. Finally, I'm extremely annoyed by people, whether real or fictional, who pat themselves on the back for loving books. People have loved books for as long as there have been books, and even before books, people loved storytelling and drama.
You're not a special kind of intellect for loving books and wordplay. The people in Inkheart are paraded before us as people with an extra special super duper love of books that is so powerful that they can cause the boundary between books and reality to melt.
But just carrying around favorite books in a little trunk and bragging you've loved books since you were a baby and could read before you could talk and so forth isn't particularly magical or distinctive or worthy of praise, and I got tired pretty quickly of Meggie and her father and aunt and their extreme reverence for books.
Capping it off is Funke's annoying habit of using an epigram from other mostly fantasy books for each chapter. If she found those inspiring, fine, stick them on your bulletin board while writing.
But they were yet more reason to jump out of the story, rather than having it propel along. View all 66 comments. Sep 17, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult , fantasy , adventure , literature , german , fiction , 21th-century , magic.
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. Her father invites the stranger in, who introduces himself as Dustfinger.
Mo and Dustfinger go to Mo's workshop, where Mo works as a bookbinder. Meggie eavesdrops and hears them talking about unfamiliar people and places, such as a man named Capricorn. The next morning, Mo unexpectedly announces that he and Meggie have to go to Meggie's Aunt Elinor's house where Mo has to fix some books.
They bring along their camper; eventually, they find Dustfinger on the road, who climbs onto the camper to journey with Meggie and Mo to Elinor's house. When they arrive, Elinor seems displeased, but lets them in. Her house, like Mo and Meggie's, is full of books. Mo sets off to work, and Meggie talks much to Dustfinger, where she is introduced to Dustfinger's pet, Gwin, a marten with horns on top of his head.
One day, he puts on a show for her at night, claiming to be an entertainer and a fire-eater. A short while after, Mo is captured by people with unusual names, bringing along with him a book, Inkheart, that the previously mentioned Capricorn is desperate to get his hands on.
Meggie and Elinor tell the police, but the police just think they are out of their minds. View all 4 comments. Barbara This is a great series. Ahmad Sharabiani Barbara wrote: "This is a great series. Barbara wrote: "This is a great series. Reread - April Still a 5 star read, but mainly for nostalgic purposes. If I read it for the first time now, it might be a 4 star. As an adult I relate a lot to both Elinor and Dustfinger, but find Meggie a bit annoying at times.
Still a truly magical tale that will always hold a special place in my heart. Honestly one of my favourite fantasy reads. I loved all the charac Reread - April I loved all the characters - even the villians! They were vivid, colourful, the world Cornelia Funke creates is absolutely extraordinary and if it were up to me I would live in the Inkworld for ever! For anyone that likes a good dose of escapism, a book about books, a story that will make you laugh, cry and just generally never want to finish then this is for you!
View all 14 comments. Feb 24, Dana rated it it was ok. I really wanted to like this book. I had such high hopes for it. It was one of those books that whenever my students saw me reading it they said, "Oh, I really liked that book! It was so good. It just wasn't. The story was nice. In short very short : Meggie's father repairs books. Her mother disappeared nine years ago. Log in. Find A book.
Mo, a gentle bookbinder with an extraordinary secret, and his daughter Meggie love books, yet he has not read aloud to her since her mother disappeared years ago. After a mysterious stranger visits them, Mo tells Meggie they must go into hiding.
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