“There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.” – Cornelia Funke
A German author of young adult
fiction, Funke (pronounced Foon-ka) was born on this day in 1958 and is perhaps
best known for her Inkheart trilogy. The books
chronicle the adventures of teen Meggie Folchart whose life changes
dramatically when she realizes that she and her father, a bookbinder named Mo,
have the ability to bring characters from books into the real world
when reading aloud.
Mostly set in Northern Italy and its
parallel world Inkheart, the central story concerns the magic of books, their characters and creatures – and the art of reading.
An avid reader herself, beginning
during her “growing up years in northern Germany," she said she always wanted to
be either an astronaut or a pilot but then gravitated toward social work and working with children.
And that, she said, led to her writing for kids.
A worldwide advocate for strong
libraries, she said she encourages every child and every aspiring young writer
to “Read – and be curious. If I was a book, I would like to be a library
book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids,” she said. “A library book, I imagine, is a very happy
book.”
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