Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Translated by from the German by Anthea Bell

• Stadtbibliothek Bremen, Germany

One cruel night, young Meggie's father, Mo, reads aloud from a book called Inkheart, and an evil ruler named Capricorn 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.
Somehow, Meggie and Mo must learn to harness the magic that conjured this nightmare. Somehow, they must change the course of the story that has changed their lives forever.
This is Inkheart, a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life.

Cornelia Funke is one of Germany's best-selling children's book authors. She has written over 40 books, and her books have been translated and sold in many countries. The Thief Lord has won many awards both in the US and throughout the world. She lives in Hamburg, Germany with her husband and children.