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Inkheart | 
| Author: Cornelia Funke
Publisher: The Chicken House
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  489 reviews
Sales Rank: 1520
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 6 x 2
ISBN: 0439531640
EAN: 9780439531641
ASIN: 0439531640
Publication Date: October 1, 2003
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Amazon.com Review
Meggies 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 IInkheart,/I that several of the books wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. Then Mo discovered something even worse--when he read Capricorn and his henchmen Iout/I of Inkheart, he accidentally read Meggies mother Iin./I p 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! p Cornelia Funkes imaginative ode to books and book lovers is sure to be enjoyed by fans of her breakout debut, IThe Thief Lord/I, and young readers who enjoyed the similarly themed IThe Great Good Thing/I by Roderick Townley. (Ages 10 to 15) I--Jennifer Hubert/I
Product Description
Cornelia Funke, the enormously talented author of the international best-seller THE THIEF LORD, brings readers another spellbinding tale of adventure and magic. Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a book-binder. But her father has a deep secret-- he posseses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her father's past. Who is this sinister character and what does he want? Suddenly Meggie is involved in a breathless game of escape and intrigue as her father's life is put in danger. Will she be able to save him in time?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 484 more reviews...
 a review of the audio book December 28, 2008
I'll let others review the content of the book. This review is specific to the audio book, which is read by Lynn Redgrave. She does a beautiful job of defining the many voices in the story, and unlike some readers, she modifies the characters' voices when appropriate. For example, if the character has a cold, she speaks with a stuffier voice. Ms. Redgrave does an excellent job with both the male and female voices and is a pleasure to listen to.
 Amazing book. December 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is amazing. The story is well developed and I got sucked in immediately. Definitely worth reading.
An Amazing Adventure December 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book Inkheart is about a girl named Meggie who lost her mother between the pages of a book. She, her father, and a man named Darius all have the ability to read characters out of books. Meggie calls her father Mo. Some people call him Silvertongue and others call him Mortimor. And if you happen to like adventures, this is definitely the book for you! There are two other books called Inkspell and Inkdeath that I haven't read yet, but I bet they'll be great!!br /br /Book review by: Michaela
Amazingly captivating tale! December 14, 2008
I loved this book. I got it to read over Christmas break so that I could watch the movie in January, but I picked it up just to look at it a few days ago and I couldn't put it down! It has a great story and the writing is fantastic! I started it probably a week ago and I finished it last night! I can't wait for the movie and I can't wait to read the other two in the series! Way to go Mrs. Funke!
Good book December 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Even though at the moment there are already around 484 customer reviews, I am going to write my own on this book. It is at least 500 pages long, and is worth it. The story's main characters are Mo, the father of his 12 year old daughter, Meggie, who can both read aloud and make things come out of books (the Tin Soldier, Tinkerbell, gold, lizards, etc.). One day when Meggie was only 3, Mo was reading aloud to her and her mom, Teresa, from a book called InkHeart. Teresa goes missing, and in her place, 2 villians, Basta and Capricorn, as well as a fire eater named Dustfinger and his marten, Gwin, end up in their living room, a little shaky from the travel from their book to the real world. All the book characters ask to be read back to their world, but since Mo doesn't even know how they got to his world, he cannot do it, and drives them out of the house. Now, around 9 years later, Dustfinger appears at their door telling them Carpicorn is looking for Mo, and so they journey to Teresa's aunt's home near a lake in Italy, who is passionate for books, and dislikes children. Capricorn's men find Mo, and take him and Inkheart (which he was trying to hide in the home amidst all the other hundreds or thousands of books) away. Meggie is deeply upset, and sets out with her great aunt and Dustfinger to save Mo and give Capricorn the book (which Meggie found her great aunt had replaced with another book in order to read it), but the rescue mission is a failure, as Dustfinger betrayed them because Capricorn told him he would get to go back into the book. I am not going to spoil anymore in the book, for it is too long and good to tell about. 8D I think this is an great book to read if you have lots of time.
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