Inkheart
- 548
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
- Film 2008
- On screen
- ALA Notable Books for Children
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Editor’s note Cornelia Funke published Tintenherz in 2003, about Meggie, whose father can read characters out of books, and every chapter opens with a quotation from another book. Funke has said she pictured Brendan Fraser as Mo while writing, and he went on to play him in the 2008 film. The trilogy continues in Inkspell (2005) and Inkdeath (2007), and a fourth book followed in 2023.
About the book
Inkheart is a 2003 young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and is the first book of the Inkheart series, with Inkspell (2005) and Inkdeath (2007) succeeding it. The novel became one of the finalists of 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature and won the Flicker Tale Children's Book Award in 2006. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".
Reading order · Inkheart series
Full order & progress →- InkheartThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Inkspell
7.87.8 / 10 - InkdeathInkdeath–Not ranked yet
- The Color of RevengeThe Color of Revenge–Not ranked yet
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- FilmInkheartIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 52 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 26% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 52 | 100% |
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It has 548 pages — longer than 53% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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