Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke
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Author: Cornelia FunkeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-01
ISBN: 0439709105
Number of pages: 560
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Book Reviews of Inkheart
Book Review: A unique premise...for lover's of books
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an enjoyable read. The story is about Meggie and her father Mo. Mo has an unusual ability; when he reads stories aloud, the characters come to life, literally. The story revolves around what happens to Meggie and Mo once some of these characters have been read out of their books.
I especially enjoyed reading this story as the main characters, Meggie and Mo (and even Elinor - Meggie's aunt) all enjoyed reading. Mo is a bookbinder - a book doctor. He restores old books and makes them new again. Mo has taught Meggie from a young age to love books. It's not uncommon for them both to stay up late and read books. They have piles of books in every room of their house.
Funke's writing style was enjoyable as it was light and made for a quick read. I thought the book was going to take a different turn at the end. Perhaps it will do so in the sequels, Inkspell and Inkdeath.
Summary of Inkheart
One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever. This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.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
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