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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Brilliant creative gem for those who passionately love the power of the printed word. A gripping fantasy that immediately becomes a real world. Beware the film version that fails to establish a consistent and shared accent for the father daughter speaking voices! (  )ViaLys | Jul 9, 2009 |   The story was highly original and not at all what I was expected. I look forward to reading the sequels. (  )Katya0133 | Jul 5, 2009 | 1  read 2x. (  )panzertastica | Jul 5, 2009 |  Great fantasy. Original plot. And even the movie was pretty good . . . ( )plettie2 | Jul 3, 2009 | 1 This was a good book. I saw previews of the movie and wanted to read the book first. I was pulled in to the where Meggie and her father, who repairs books, suddenly get a visitor late one night and they have to leave their home. Meggie is used this, since they travel all the time and he takes her with him. This is a story that will keep you turning pages and reading. It pulls you in and keeps you there. It has suspense, adventure, and is a story of a father and daughter bond. It is a wonderful story for any one that wants a little bit of everything in one. ( )dbhutch | Jun 28, 2009 | 1 0.039 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0439531640, Hardcover)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 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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