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Cornelia Funke

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Born

in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

December 10, 1958

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, YA Fantasy, Children's

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Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German illustrator and storyteller, who writes fantasy for all ages of readers. Amongst her best known books is the Inkheart trilogy. Many of Cornelia's titles are published all over the world and translated into more than 30 languages. She has two children, two birds and a very old dog and lives in Los Angeles, California.
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	Inkheart (Inkworld, #1) by Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author), Anthea Bell (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 427,923 ratings — published 2003 — 99 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inkspell (Inkworld, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 129,043 ratings — published 2005 — 134 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thief Lord 3.98 avg rating — 98,823 ratings — published 2000 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inkdeath (Inkworld, #3) by Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author), Anthea Bell (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 88,883 ratings — published 2007 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon Rider (Dragon Rider, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 83,853 ratings — published 1997 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath (The Inkheart Trilogy, #1-3) 4.21 avg rating — 19,353 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reckless (Mirrorworld, #1) by Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author) (Author/Illustrator), Oliver Latsch (translator), Yngve Bjørn Berven (Narrator) 3.75 avg rating — 21,639 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Igraine the Brave 3.89 avg rating — 9,027 ratings — published 1998 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearless (Mirrorworld, #2) 4.19 avg rating — 7,931 ratings — published 2012 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Wilden Hühner (Die Wilden Hühner, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 4,428 ratings — published 1993 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Inkworld (4 books)
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Germany: Memories of a Nation

by Neil MacGregor

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Cornelia Funke said: " Reading a chapter for breakfast each day- morning treat! Hurrah for Neil McGregor. He enlightened me so many times by now with his books, made me see familiar things through a different lense... First world history, next Shakespeare now my home count ...more "

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Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife

by Warner Shedd

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Māori Myths & Tribal Legends

by Antony Alpers

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“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

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“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: books, feelings, reading, thoughts

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“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

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What randomly selected book would you like to read in March?

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

50 votes, 30.7%

Reckless by Cornelia Funke

24 votes, 14.7%

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

23 votes, 14.1%

Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty

18 votes, 11.0%

Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs

16 votes, 9.8%

The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork

9 votes, 5.5%

Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena

8 votes, 4.9%

Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

7 votes, 4.3%

The Book of Nonsense by David Michael Slater

5 votes, 3.1%

The Sight by David Clement-Davies

3 votes, 1.8%

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