Cornelia Funke
Author of Inkheart
About the Author
Author Cornelia Maria Funke was born in Dorsten, Germany on December 10, 1958. After graduating from the University of Hamburg, she worked as a social worker for three years. After completing a course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design, she worked as a children's book show more illustrator and designed board games. Her desire to draw magical worlds and her disappointment over the way some stories were written inspired her to write her own children's books. Her book, The Thief Lord, won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the best translated children's book of the year and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award. She has also received the Book Sense Children's Literature Award for Inkheart and Inkspell. Funke has written numerous books including Dragon Rider, When Santa Fell to Earth, Igraine The Brave, Reckless, Saving Mississippi, Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, Igraine the Brave, and The Princess Knight. Inkheart was adapted into a film. Cornelia Funke was voted into the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2005. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: CHICKEN HOUSE
Series
Works by Cornelia Funke
Inkspell, Volume 2 (Unabridged) 8 copies
Untitled (Mirrorworld, #5) 8 copies
Inkspell, Volume 1 (Unabridged) 7 copies
Tintenherz - Meine Freunde 2 copies
The M Series : Monster Tales 2 copies
Untitled (Dragon Rider, #4) 1 copy
A princesa Sabela 1 copy
Katzen, Hunde, freche Ziegen 1 copy
Das kleine Hörbuch vom großen Glück: Mit den Geschichten "Die Glücksfee" und "Wo das Glück wächst" (2009) 1 copy
Die Wilden Hühner. Das geheime Wissen der wilden Hühner. CD: Mit dem Lied: Wir sind wilde Hühner. Lesung (2003) 1 copy
The Color of Revenge 1 copy
The Muddy Monster of Doom 1 copy
2019 1 copy
2005 1 copy
2007 1 copy
Associated Works
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) — Introduction, some editions; Foreword, some editions — 22,195 copies
Mein neues großes Vorlesebuch — Geschichten zum Vor- und Selberlesen (2016) — Contributor — 3 copies
Voor leesmonsters! : [met nieuw werk van Judith Eiselin, Cornelia Funke, Liesbeth Jongkind, Rindert Kromhout, Guus… (2004) — Contributor — 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Funke, Cornelia Caroline
- Birthdate
- 1958-12-10
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Germany
- Birthplace
- Dorsten, Germany
- Places of residence
- Dorsten, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Los Angeles, California, USA - Education
- University of Hamburg
- Occupations
- freelance children's book illustrator
social worker
children's book author - Awards and honors
- Roswitha-Preis (2008)
- Short biography
- Cornelia Funke was born in 1958 in the town of Dorsten in Westphalia, Germany. to Karl-Heinz and Helmi Funke. She studied pedagogy at the University of Hamburg, and then worked for three years as a social worker. She started illustrating books, but soon began writing her own stories, . During the late 1980s and the 1990s, Funke established herself in Germany with two children's series, namely the fantasy-oriented Gespensterjäger (Ghosthunters) and the Wilde Hühner (Wild Chicks) line of books.
Members
Discussions
Books Illustrated Inkheart in Fine Press Forum (December 2023)
YA Novel with Stone/Jade People in Name that Book (June 2019)
Book about a girl knight and her family in Name that Book (January 2012)
Reviews
Reckless (Mirrorworld) by Cornelia Funke
2,5
Inkheart is a book for older children, and the older child in me likes it as well.
Inkheart is about stories, their power, their creation and care, and it is about family, and how the bonds of family extend beyond blood relations to include friends and animals and creatures of the imagination. Inkheart is, really, a book mainly about imagination, and Cornelia Funke has startlingly original ideas in this 21st century fairytale. I enjoyed re-reading it.
Inkheart is about stories, their power, their creation and care, and it is about family, and how the bonds of family extend beyond blood relations to include friends and animals and creatures of the imagination. Inkheart is, really, a book mainly about imagination, and Cornelia Funke has startlingly original ideas in this 21st century fairytale. I enjoyed re-reading it.
Summary: Meggie discovers that her father can read characters out of books, but soon a book leads her into a dangerous place linked to the disappearance of her mother.
My notes: I really enjoyed the first book (although it took some time to get into). The second book was a bit romancey for me, and I didn't even bother with the third because I had grown to hate the main character.
Book notes and screen notes: This is a series of three books: Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath. There is also a movie.
https://youtu.be/7UvKccFUC2I
If you liked this, you might like: The Other Alice- Michelle Harrison, Nightbooks- J A White… (more)
My notes: I really enjoyed the first book (although it took some time to get into). The second book was a bit romancey for me, and I didn't even bother with the third because I had grown to hate the main character.
Book notes and screen notes: This is a series of three books: Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath. There is also a movie.
https://youtu.be/7UvKccFUC2I
If you liked this, you might like: The Other Alice- Michelle Harrison, Nightbooks- J A White… (more)
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Thieves (1)
Allie's Wishlist (1)
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Statistics
- Works
- 155
- Also by
- 9
- Members
- 64,190
- Popularity
- #219
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 1,430
- ISBNs
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- Favorited
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