Cornelia's fans are sometimes referred to as Funkies.įunke also worked as a producer on the film adaptation of Inkheart. The trilogy was concluded in Inkdeath (published in Germany in 2007, English version Spring 2008, American version Fall 2008). Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which was continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Funke her second BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award (2006). Following the success of The Thief Lord and Dragon Rider, her next novel was Inkheart (2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award. The fantasy novel Dragon Rider (2004) stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 78 weeks. It was subsequently released as The Thief Lord by Scholastic and made it to the number 2 spot on The New York Times Best Seller list. Rowling" of Germany although she was highly successful in Germany, the first of her books to be translated into English was Herr der Diebe in 2002.
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 Die wilden Hühner (C.H.I.X.) line of books. She had a stint illustrating books, but soon began writing her own stories, inspired by the sorts of stories that had appealed to the deprived children she had worked with. During her social work she focused on working with children who came from deprived backgrounds. After finishing her studies, Funke worked for three years as a social worker. As a child, she wanted to become an astronaut and/or a pilot, but then she decided to study pedagogy at the University of Hamburg. With lively central characters in Jon and Ella, and atmospheric black and white illustrations by Andrea Offermann scattered throughout the book, Ghost Knight is a satisfying and appealingly spooky tale that is ideal for the upper primary age group.Cornelia Funke was born in 1958 in the town of Dorsten in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to Karl-Heinz and Helmi Funke. Together, the two set about to stop the ghosts, uncovering an ancient murder, awakening a long-dead knight from restless slumber, and putting right some centuries-old wrongdoings along the way.īestselling author Cornelia Funke turns her hand to a classic ghost story in this engaging novel, translated from German by Oliver Latsch. His fellow pupils are oblivious to what is going on and can't even see the ghosts that threaten him, but luckily, new friend Ella is at hand to help make sense of what is happening. In the school grounds, Jon is confronted by a terrifying and vengeful gang of ghosts, determined to murder him because of a long-ago feud with his ancestors.
But his new school isn't quite what he expected - in more ways than one.
Jon is miserable when he's packed off to an old-fashioned boarding school in Salisbury by his mum and her horrible new boyfriend 'the Beard'.
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