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IESB has some great Inkheart prize items that you have a chance to win! Prize Packages One Grand Prize Winner Will Receive - A Digital Book Reader, one Kajeet Prepaid Phone, one Inkheart Nintendo DS Game, one Leather belt with pouch, an Inkheart Sketchbook with Pencil Case & Pencil, a sheet of Tattoos and one Kids’ Unisex Inkheart Tee. Four Second Prize Winners Will Receive - An Inkheart Sketchbook with Pencil Case & Pencil, a sheet of Tattoos and one Kids’ Unisex Inkheart ... read more

Teen vampire movie Twilight took the largest bite of the box office cash over the weekend, Screen International said on Tuesday. Twilight, based on the bestselling novel by U.S. author Stephenie Meyer, took 2.5 million pounds in its first three days, beating animated comedy Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa into second place. Seasonal comedy Four Christmases stayed in third place, while sci-fi remake The Day The Earth Stood Still, fell from top spot to fourth. Animated adventure The Tale of ... read more

“This is one of those adaptations that tries to keep you watching with its sheer busyness. At times, though, you just want it to stop and catch breath with the aid of some rather better lines and deeper characterisations.”This Is London - 2/5 “The sublime irony of this medley of state-of-the-art special effects is how earnestly Softley’s film champions the superiority of the written word. Inkheart shows why books are wonderful yet dangerous places; how a well-told story ... read more

Cornelia Funke, author of the Inkheart trilogy is to hold an exclusive Christmas book signing at Tales on Moon Lane. The German author also known worldwide for the success of her books, The Thief Lord and Dragon Rider will be signing copies of her most recent best sellers including Inkdeath. Funke will be at Tales on Moon Lane, 25 Half Moon Lane, Herne Hill, on Saturday 13th December, from 4pm onwards. This is an excellent opportunity for fans to meet the author. The success of Inkheart and ... read more

The Chester Chronicle have conducted an interview with Paul Bettany. Paul Bettany appears in the family fantasy adventure Inkheart, released in cinemas on Friday December 12. The British actor explains that he took the role to impress his sons and talks about working alongside his wife Jennifer Connelly in Darwin biopic Creation. Paul Bettany is a busy man. His two latest films - The Secret Life Of Bees and Inkheart - are about to hit cinemas within a week of each other and he’s ... read more

Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart has been made into a movie starring Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent and Andy Serkis. Meggie loves books. So does her father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he has never read loud to her since her mother mysteriously disappeared. They live quietly until the night a stranger knocks at their door. He has come with a warning that forces Mo to reveal an extraordinary secret - a storytelling secret that will change their lives for ever. Born on ... read more

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has inked a multi-book deal with bestselling author Cornelia Funke, whose previous titles have been published in the U.S. by Scholastic’s Chicken House imprint. Little, Brown Books have acquired North American rights for a publishing program that will include middle-grade and young adult novels, as well as a picture book. Funke’s first title with Little, Brown will be the novel Reckless, about two modern brothers in a magical 19th century world ... read more

Cornelia Funke has captivated readers of all ages and backgrounds with the 10 million books she has sold. The loss of her husband to cancer two years ago was a heartbreaking chapter for the writer. Funke was nearly 30 when she first thought about becoming a writer. She had worked as a social worker and then a book illustrator until growing exasperated with the mediocre children’s stories she was asked to illustrate. Her books were an immediate hit in Germany - the author likes to draw ... read more

The Inkworld trilogy tells the story of a girl named Meggie and her father, Mo, who share the unusual talent of being able to read themselves into stories. It’s as magical as it sounds, but the outcomes aren’t always the stuff of fairy tales. When Mo reads from a book called Inkheart, some characters wind up in Meggie and Mo’s world and some, specifically Meggie’s mother, wind up in the Ink World. Funke called the first book, which wasn’t originally intended to ... read more

A story within a story, Inkheart tells the tale of a book of the same name owned by Mortimer Folchart who is a book restorer who lives in a remote farmhouse with his 12-year-old daughter Meggie. Mo, as he is known to his daughter, has not told Meggie about his ‘gift’, that he can read characters out of books and that is why he never reads to her aloud. Read the full Inkheart review He has also not told her that whenever his magical reading voice summons someone out of a book that ... read more