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If you are a dreamer, come in
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A Hope-er, a Pray-er, a Magic Bean Buyer,
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!
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For Anna, who even put The Lord of The Rings aside for a while to read this book. Could anyone ask for more of a daughter?
And for Elinor, who lent me her name, although I didn't use it for an elf queen. For Anna, who put 'The Lord Of The Rings' aside for this book. Could anyone ask more of a daughter? And for Elinor, who lent me her name, although i didn't use it for an elf queen. | |
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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. Rain fell that night, a fine, whispering rain. | |
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Some books should be tasted some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? | |
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And where better could she learn that trade than in a house full of magical creatures, where fairies built their nests in the garden and books whispered on the shelves by night? As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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First published in Germany as Tintenherz by Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg, 2003. | |
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Information from the Italian Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to the English one. | |
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A young adult fantasy novel where a young girl and her father are able to bring a story's characters to life with equally good and bad results just by reading. | |
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▾Book descriptions Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0439709105, Paperback)
Meggie’s father, Mo, has an wonderful and sometimes terrible ability. When he reads aloud from books, he brings the characters to life--literally. Mo discovered his power when Maggie was just a baby. He read so lyrically from the the book Inkheart, that several of the book’s wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. Then Mo discovered something even worse--when he read Capricorn and his henchmen out of Inkheart, he accidentally read Meggie’s mother in. Meggie, now a young lady, knows nothing of her father's bizarre and powerful talent, only that Mo still refuses to read to her. Capricorn, a being so evil he would "feed a bird to a cat on purpose, just to watch it being torn apart," has searched for Meggie's father for years, wanting to twist Mo's powerful talent to his own dark means. Finally, Capricorn realizes that the best way to lure Mo to his remote mountain hideaway is to use his beloved, oblivious daughter Meggie as bait! Cornelia Funke’s imaginative ode to books and book lovers is sure to be enjoyed by fans of her breakout debut, The Thief Lord, and young readers who enjoyed the similarly themed The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley. (Ages 10 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:44:09 -0500) (see all 7 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Cuando el padre de Meggie saluda a un extr?ao visitante que aparece en su casa, la n?ia siente que aquella persona emana un peligro. Entonces huyen a la casa de íta Elinor, propietaria de una fascinante biblioteca. Meggie descubre que los forasteros que misteriosamente aparecen y desaparecen llaman a su padre Lengua de Brujo, ya que tiene el don de dar vida a los personajes de los libros cuando lee en voz alta.… (more) » see all 11 descriptions |
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Forse mi aspettavo qualche "celebrità " in più, ma intuisco bene i problemi di copyright che questo avrebbe causato all'autrice. (