Inkheart
A tie-in to the film. Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
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Twelve-year-old Meggie's father, a bookbinder, has a strange gift: when he reads aloud, the characters can come out of the book. Years ago he read the wrong one. Now those characters have come for him.
Cornelia Funke's Inkheart trilogy has three books: Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath. A fourth book, The Color of Revenge, was published in 2024 expanding the world.
The 2008 film starring Brendan Fraser is a partial adaptation of the first book. Cornelia Funke was supportive of the film but it underperformed, and the planned sequels were not made.
Inkheart was written by Sonia Sander, published in 2008 by Scholastic.
Inkheart is 56 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Inkheart takes most readers under an hour to finish.
Inkheart is a standalone novel by Sonia Sander, not part of a series.
Inkheart is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
