Who is cornelia funke

After she graduated from college, she worked as a social worker with children from difficult backgrounds. She returned to school three years later, this time to study book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design.

As an illustrator, she designed board games and illustrated children's books. But she soon became frustrated. During her time working with children from deprived backgrounds, Cornelia had discovered the sorts of stories that grasped their imaginations.

The enchantment that comes from books. Good authors make books come alive for their readers. In Inkheart , twelve-year-old Meggie loves books so much that she regularly falls asleep with them. Her father, Mo, teases her, saying, "I'm sure it must be very comfortable sleeping with a hard, rectangular thing like that under your head. Books are also important to her father, who earns his living by traveling across the country repairing and caring for old volumes. He does not, however, read to his daughter because of a secret power he possesses: if Mo reads a book aloud, its characters leave the pages and enter the real world.

Mo discovered his gift several years earlier, when he released characters from the book Inkheart. One of them, named Capricorn, is so evil that his heart is said to be made of ink.

Capricorn hunts down Mo because he wants to destroy Inkheart, ensuring that he will never return to its pages. The success of Inkheart followed that of The Thief Lord. The book debuted at number nine on the New York Times bestseller list and stayed on the list into It also received rave reviews.

Publisher's Weekly enthused that "readers will be captivated by the chilling and thrilling world [Funke] has created. She was interviewed on television and radio and visited many bookstores across the United States. In her Bookwrap video interview Funke commented about the American children she met on tour, and how open and curious they were. I didn't know there was so many here And I have to confess this kind of book passion I have only met in America. Funke revealed to the Miami Herald that there are two sequels planned for Inkheart.

The second in the series, called Inkblood, has already been written and is being translated from the German, with an expected release date of In addition, there are movies in the works based on The Thief Lord and on the Inkheart trilogy. Once her books hit the big screen, Funke, already a beloved writer, will no doubt become a writing phenomenon. And there is also no doubt that there are many more books to come from her pen.

As she told Wyss, "Writing is my passion I couldn't live without it. Dragon Rider. New York: Scholastic Books, The Thief Lord. Corbett, Sue. Review of Inkheart. Publisher's Weekly July 21, : p.

Review of The Thief Lord. View all 27 comments. Write a comment This is quite a silly question, but, I wondered: where did you get the inspiration for the loving relationship between Meggie and Mo?

Cornelia Funke Not silly at all! The inspiration was first my own relationship with my father, then Atticus and Scout in the original book: and finally Brendan Fra …more Not silly at all! The inspiration was first my own relationship with my father, then Atticus and Scout in the original book: and finally Brendan Fraser, who was my model for a character who is sometimes so boyish a father that his daughter Meggie does some mothering: less.

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Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Oliver Latsch translator. Series by Cornelia Funke. Inkworld 4 books by Cornelia Funke Goodreads Author. Mirrorworld 5 books by Cornelia Funke Goodreads Author. Helena Ragg-Kirkby Translator. Cornelia is Currently Reading. Cornelia Funke is currently reading.

Aug 20, AM. Jul 02, AM. Everything on the estate in Tuscany is slowly coming together. The furniture is still on its way by ship, and Cornelia is also only gradually settling into her new home. And the same goes for her website. As Cornelia sets up her new rooms, a recording studio, an old tavern, and a studio in the garage in the near future, this site will also be set up page by page: your guest room, Cornelia's area, the books-and-stories section I am sure most of you know that for by now 4 years I have lived on the Wild West Coast, or California, as they named it, in a small town called Malibu.

I lived through fires and floods on the old Avocado Farm I bought. It was a good place to be at when Covid changed all our lives and it taught me about donkeys and rattlesnakes, about barn owls and redtail hawks. It made me realize that I would love to invite young artists from all over the world to talk and work with them and to give them a place where they can create. Bonsall, as I called my Farm, has taught me so many things that I will always carry it with me.

It gave me great happiness, many new friends, wonderful neighbours and the best avocados I will ever taste. But now I decided to move to another farm, on a hill in Tuscany, and have olive instead of avocado trees.

The first reason is man made.