The Literacy Bridge - Large Print - Inkheart

Cornella Funke

ISBN 10: 0786280417 / ISBN 13: 9780786280414

Published by Thorndike Press, 2005

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Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item for full refund. Ships USPS Media Mail.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Literacy Bridge - Large Print - Inkheart
• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786280417
• ISBN 13: 9780786280414
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

A New York Times Bestseller

Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life. Not like when someone reads a book and the characters seem to jump off the page . . . but for real. Imagine they could actually climb out of the pages and into our world. Then, imagine if they brought their world into ours. This is Inkheart, a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life.

Review

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