Inkheart
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Cornelia Funke: 'Inkheart'
In 1979, the German children's book writer Michael Ende decided to take a journey into imagery realms in his writing: His epic book, The Neverending Story, takes place in a magical world full of adventure that appealed not only to children. Many adults also fell in love with the powerful story. And those who were fortunate enough to experience The Neverending Story during their childhood are still fans today.
But those children have long grown up and have children of their own now. And their generation has their own author who explores universes of the imagination: Cornelia Funke. There's hardly a child today who hasn't read Funke's work or has at least listened to audio books or watched film adaptations of her books.
Funke had already written a number of books in the 1990s, including the popular Wild Chicks series. But Inkheart changed everything and established her as one of the world's foremost authors of fantasy literature for young people.
'Inkheart' by Cornelia Funke
Breakthrough moment
Published in both German and Engli
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Inkheart series
Fantasy book series by Cornelia Funke
The Inkheartseries is a succession of four fantasy novels written by German author Cornelia Funke, comprising Inkheart (2003), Inkspell (2005), Inkdeath (2007), and The Colour of Revenge (2024). The books chronicle the adventures of teen Meggie Folchart whose life changes dramatically when she realizes that she and her father, a bookbinder named Mo, have the unusual ability to bring characters from books into the real world when reading aloud. Mostly set in Northern Italy and the parallel world of the fictional Inkheart book, the central story arc concerns the magic of books, their characters and creatures, and the art of reading.
Originally released in German-speaking Europe, the third book, entitled Inkdeath, was released in an English translation by Anthea Bell in October 2008. In 2004, Funke sold the film rights to all three books to New Line Cinema; thus far, the first book has been made into a motion picture, which was released in December 2008.[1]
Initially conceived as a trilogy, a seq
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Inkheart
2003 young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke
This article is about the book. For the film, see Inkheart (film).
Inkheart (German: Tintenherz) is a 2003 young adultfantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and is the first book of the Inkheart series, with Inkspell (2005) and Inkdeath (2007) succeeding it. The novel became one of the finalists of 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature[1] and won the Flicker Tale Children's Book Award in 2006.[2] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".[3]
Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy and was continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Funke a BookSense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature in 2006.[4] The trilogy was initially concluded with Inkdeath, but was revived in 2016 when Funke announced that a sequel called The Colour of Revenge (German: Die Farbe der Rache) would be published in 2018 in Germany.[5] Although the book was s
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