The 3 best books by Cornelia Funke

The fantasy genre found in Cornelia funke a cornerstone that balances the narrative of the great authors of the most epic narrative (let's put Patrick Rothfuss), with a more traditional fantasy (let's put the also German Michael Ende). All in a child and youth aspect that greens that literature that is so necessary as a counterweight to fast-consumption novels, tasty for young readers but devoid of background.

Because we will agree that there is a chasm between "The Neverending Story" and a book that could be called "The Day Francisca Discovered that Green and Red Don't Go Together" (any resemblance to reality is mere coincidence). Funke lavishes himself, whether in his sagas or in individual installments, in those works of classic reminiscences, that is, with morals. He always developed the knots with exquisite ingenuity.

So with Funke our children's imaginations are in good hands. And even our own imagination can also take a good rejuvenating bath among the plots of this great German author capable of empathizing, as only the great storytellers know, with that world between childhood and early youth, where we can settle essences about the good and evil that are projected from distant worlds towards the more mundane behavior of the young.

Cornelia Funke's Top 3 Recommended Novels

Ink heart

The take-off of a saga «World of ink» that spreads like an extensive new world on both sides of the mirror of our subjective reality and that other side that we sensed more when we were still children, confident that magic could only surprise us for good, leaving the victor of all the insults that could arise from the shadows that regularly threaten.

Mortimer "Mo" Folchart and his 12-year-old daughter, Meggie, share a passion for books and a gift: if they read aloud, they can make the characters in the book appear. But a danger lurks: for every fictional character that reaches the real world, a person will disappear, who will go to the fictional world ...

Some time ago Mo bought a copy of a highly sought after book. It is Inkheart, a book full of illustrations and strange and evil creatures that, since her daughter Meggie was three years old, she has kept hidden. It was then that, while reading it aloud, his wife disappeared into that mysterious fictional world.

Capricorn, the villain of Heart of Ink, wishes to seize that unique specimen to control the power over the incarnation of evil: the Shadow. To do this, he will kidnap our heroes and embark them on a dangerous journey ...

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Ink Blood

A continuation that does not have the freshness of the first installment. But it is never easy to expand on a great story already told. The author's imagination and her will compensate for the daring to continue channeling the adventures of Meggie and Mo.

Life seems to be peaceful again in Aunt Elinor's house and in her fascinating library, or with Resa's return, or with Mo (Witch's Tongue) again binding and "healing" sick books; but danger lurks again behind the pages and in the garden.

Meggie, who has inherited from her father Witch's Tongue the gift of bringing book characters to life when she reads aloud, will not be abandoned by magic in this adventure either ... and a new journey will begin. Meggie will leave for the Ink World in the company of Farid with the intention of warning Dustfinger, since the cruel Basta and the evil Mortola are not far away; In addition, she will finally meet the Orondo Prince, the Handsome Cosimo, the Black Prince and his bear and the Impenetrable Forest.

And, of course, she would also like to meet again with the blue fairies, with the fire elves and, of course, with Fenoglio, who may be able to return her to the real world through writing. Or maybe not?

Lord of thieves

Escaping from the multicolored ink worlds of Funke, this other novel is presented to us without outstanding debts, with that rabid imagination unleashed and that taste of the author to reach new worlds from mirrors, doors or holes strategically arranged in our world so that Restless readers end up reaching unimaginable adventures.

Fleeing from their aunt, who tries to separate them, Prospero and Bonifacio reach the wonderful Venice. There they find shelter in a youth gang led by a mysterious leader nicknamed Lord of Thieves.

The unity of the band seems to be broken when an enigmatic commission takes the children to an island in the lagoon that houses a mystery that changes everything ... A story that mixes elements of David Copperfield and Peter Pan, a protagonist who resembles a modern Robin Hood, a surprising novel that will catch all readers.

Lord of thieves
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