Cornelia Funke, Author , read by Simon Jones. Listening Library $28 (, unabridged, five cassettes, 8.5 hours, $28 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-8072-0976-9
Jones's (The Devil's Own; Brideshead Revisited) deep, sonorous voice and British accent set the perfect mood for German author Funke's adventurous tale of orphans on the run in Venice. Though set in modern-day Italy, Funke's story...
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Cornelia Funke, Author , trans. from the German by Anthea Bell. Scholastic/ Chicken House $19.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-439-53164-1
In Funke's (The Thief Lord) delectably thick and transfixing fantasy, 12-year-old Meggie learns that when her bookbinder father, Mo, reads a book aloud, the characters and other objects appear in the real world. Nine years ago, Mo accidentally...
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Cornelia Funke, Author Ediciones B $13.95 (112p) ISBN 978-84-666-3051-1
Grade 3-6-One October evening, while walking home from the movies, B\xFAho and Lina have a frightful encounter with a wolf. The animal bites B\xFAho's hand, and that brings a whole slew of changes to the boy's appearance and behavior; he grows a...
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Cornelia Funke, Illustrator , trans. from the German by Helena Ragg-Kirkby. Scholastic/Chicken House $16.99 (135p) ISBN 978-0-439-83308-0
Funke reaches out to newly independent readers with this first-in-a-series installment about beleaguered nine-year-old Tom, who bests his nasty older sister, Lola, by honing his ghosthunting skills. Sent to the cellar for orange juice, Tom, a 'fr
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Cornelia Funke, read by Elliot Hill. Listening Library, unabridged, four CDs, 5 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-0-307-58334-5
When he’s sent away to boarding school, Jon Whitcroft isn’t too happy about it—and that’s before he starts seeing ghosts and the ghosts start seeing him. But when the ghosts begin to plot against Jon, the only person he can turn to his newfound...
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Cornelia Funke, trans. from the German by Oliver Latsch, illus. by Kerstin Meyer. Random, $9.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-385-37540-5
Funke (the Inkheart trilogy) spins her fictional magic in this witty novel, written in 2002 and newly translated by Latsch, starring an eight-year-old girl with four pesky brothers. At night, Emma and her dog Tristan escape to the chilly beach,...
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator , trans. from the German by Anthea Bell. Scholastic/ Chicken House $19.99 (635p) ISBN 978-0-439-55400-8
In this spellbinding follow-up to Inkheart
, Funke expertly mixes joy, pain, suspense and magic. In the opening chapter, Dustfinger returns to Inkheart
, the fantastic novel (within Funke's novel of the same name) from which he was sprung, and...
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator , trans. by Anthea Bell. Scholastic/Chicken House $24.99 (683p) ISBN 978-0-439-86628-6
This concluding volume in Funke's bestselling trilogy picks up where Inkspell
left off, but sputters for a hundred pages filling in backstory. (Even then, an addendum is needed to identify a cast of 114 characters.) The Inkworld, full of dark...
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator , trans. by Anthea Bell. Scholastic/Chicken House $12.95 (523p) ISBN 978-0-439-45695-1
This fantasy that established Funke's (Inkheart
) reputation as a gifted storyteller in her native Germany (available for the first time in the U.S.), is sure to appeal to her many American fans. When humans encroach upon his home valley,...
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator, Cornelia Funke, With , trans. by Anthea Bell. Scholastic/Chicken House $16.99 (212p) ISBN 978-0-439-90379-0
Igraine's parents are magicians who own the coveted Singing Books of Magic. Brother Albert has joined the family business, but Igraine finds magic incredibly boring—she pines for the excitement of knighthood. Then, on her 12th birthday,...
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Christian Burmingham, Illustrator , trans. by Oliver Latsch. Scholastic/Chicken House $16.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-439-40437-2
Wacky characters bring energy to this translation of an entertaining German novel about thieving children, a disguise-obsessed detective and a magical merry-go-round. After their mother dies, 12-year-old Prosper and his brother, Bo, five, flee from...
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Kerstin Meyer, Illustrator , illus. by Kerstin Meyer, trans. by Chantal Wright. Scholastic/Chicken House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-71672-7
Captain Firebeard, helmsman Morgan O'Meany and the crew of the Horrible Haddock make "the knees of honest seafaring folk... shake like jelly." But they meet their match in Molly, a small but sturdy girl whose thick auburn ponytails rival
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Kerstin Meyer, Illustrator , illus. by Kerstin Meyer, trans. from the German by Chantal Wright. Scholastic/Chicken House $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-88554-6
As they did in The Princess Knight
, Funke and Meyer once again skewer the princess stereotype. While Isabella leads a pampered life that others can only dream of—waited on hand and foot, with someone to blow her nose for her and curl her hair&
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Kerstin Meyer, Illustrator , illus. by Kerstin Meyer, trans. from the German by Anthea Bell. Scholastic/Chicken House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-53630-1
Funke (The Thief Lord
; Inkheart
) handles the picture book form just as deftly as her novels, with sure-footed pacing and a well-placed thrust through the cardboard princess stereotype. Violetta's widowed father King Wilfred has some confused...
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Kerstin Meyer, Illustrator, Oliver Latsch, Translator , illus. by Kerstin Meyer, trans. from the German by Oliver Latsch. Scholastic/Chicken House $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-439-82862-8
The formidable duo behind The
Princess Knight
and Pirate Girl
presses on to an exploration of the relationship between a real-world sister and brother, with rip-roaring results. All day long, Ben, "lionhearted and elephant-strong," defends
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Lynn Redgrave, Read by , read by Lynn Redgrave. Listening Library $45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-1950-8
Tackling Funke's (The Thief Lord
) meaty, intricately plotted tale of magic and books, Redgrave colors her reading with appropriately varying degrees of suspense, revelation and drama. Twelve-year-old Meggie, a self-proclaimed bookworm, finds it
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Paul Howard, Illustrator, Oliver G. Latsch, Translator , illus. by Paul Howard, trans. by Oliver G. Latsch. Scholastic/Chicken House $15.99 (164p) ISBN 978-0-439-78204-3
Funke's (Inkheart
) reinvention of the Santa myth involves foul-mouthed elves, invisible reindeer and angels who sew, bake, cobble boots and collect children's dreams for Niklas Goodfellow, the last real Santa. After Goodfellow's caravan
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Xanthe Elbrick, Read by , read by Xanthe Elbrick. Listening Library $28 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5618-0
Falling into the Funke-lite category of fantasy (more Dragonrider
than Inkheart
), young listeners, especially girls, will be eager to find adventure with the irrepressible heroine of this sprightly adventure. Igraine longs to leave boring life at...
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Cornelia Funke, Author, Brendan Fraser, Read by , read by Brendan Fraser. Listening Library $33 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4000-9090-7
Funke's (The Thief Lord
) tantalizing fantasy about a quest to find the magical Rim of Heaven, the legendary place where dragons can live in peace forever, is a wildly entertaining ride, thanks to Fraser's top-drawer performance. The actor...
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Cornelia Funke, trans. from the German by Oliver Latsch, Little, Brown, $19.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-05609-0
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Funke twists fairy lore into a dark incarnation. A prologue introduces Jacob Reckless, 12, heartsick over his father's disappearance. The story then jumps ahead 12 years; Jacob, having figured out how to follow his...
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Book Wish Foundation. Putnam, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-25454-3
Short stories that revolve around wishes form this volume created to raise money for Book Wish Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to build libraries for Darfur refugees living in Chad. Mixing poems, stories, and even a comic, the book...
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Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke, illus. by Allen Williams. Harper/Tegen, $19.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-241446-5
In this dark fantasy, Funke (the Inkheart trilogy) revisits Pan’s Labyrinth, del Toro’s acclaimed 2006 film in which a girl undergoes a series of fairy tale–inspired tasks set against the backdrop of 1944 Spain. Ofelia, 13, must adjust to her new...
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