Inkspell (77 page)

FRANCIS SPUFFORD: from
The Child That Books Built
(Faber & Faber, 2002).

WALLACE STEVENS: from “The Pure Good of Theory” and “Madame la Fleurie,” in
Collected
Poems of Wallace Stevens
(Faber & Faber, 1984)

PAUL STEWART and CHRIS RIDDELL: from
Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
(Corgi Children’s Books, 2001), reprinted by permission of The Random House Group.

WlSLAWA SZYMBORSKA: from “The Joy of Writing,” in
View with a Grain of Sand
(Harcourt Inc., 1995), © 1993 by Wislawa Szymborska, English translation by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, © 1995 by Harcourt, Inc., reprinted by permission of the publisher.

T. H. WHITE: from
The Sword in the Stone
(Harper & Row, 1973), reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers; from
The Ill-Made Knight
(Putnam, 1940), copyright © 1940 by T. H.

White, copyright renewed 1967 by Lloyds Bank Ltd., executors of the Estate of T. H. White, reprinted by permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., and David Higham Associates.

Every effort has been made to trace or contact all copyright holders. The publishers would be pleased to rectify any omissions brought to their notice at the earliest opportunity.

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About the Author

As a reader, Cornelia Funke has always loved good fantasy, particularly such modern classics as J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and J. M. Barrie’s
Peter Pan.

Funke’s own success is now international, demonstrating the universal appeal — and power —

of
her
storytelling.

Thanks to a young German girl living in Britain, Funke was brought to the attention of Barry Cunningham, Publisher of the Chicken House. When the little girl demanded to know why her favourite author’s books were not available in English, Cunningham set about the task of tracking down Funke’s latest title at that time,
Herr der Diebe.
He published its English translation,
The Thief Lord,
and it immediately entered the
New York Times
bestseller list, where it climbed to the #2 position and spent more than twenty-five weeks. It went on to win the prestigious Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the best translated children’s book of the year, the Book Sense Book of the Year Award, and many other accolades.

Funke followed up
The Thief Lord
with several successful novels.
Dragon Rider, Inkheart,
and
Inkspell
were all bestsellers, each spending months on the
New York Times
bestseller list and garnering numerous awards. To date, there are more than five million copies of her books in print in North America alone.

Cornelia Funke lives with her family in Los Angeles, California.

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