Twelve-year-old Meggie lives with her father Mortimer or 'Mo,' who works as a bookbinder. ( December 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. In 2009, a video game based on the film was released for the Nintendo DS. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews. Directed by Iain Softley, the film is based on a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire and features an ensemble cast that includes Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Rafi Gavron, Andy Serkis and newcomer Eliza Bennett, among others. įollowing the release of the first Inkheart novel, New Line Cinema bought the film rights to all three books for a cinema adaptation. The final release date for the physical book is set to be Octoin Germany. The book being still unpublished in 2020, Funke announced that the first fifteen chapters would be published digitally in the same year, with subsequent chapters published periodically. The trilogy was initially concluded in Inkdeath, but was revived in 2016 when Funke announced that a sequel called The Colour of Revenge ( German : Die Farbe der Rache ) would be published by 2018 in Germany.

Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy and was continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Funke her second BookSense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature 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'. The novel won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Award for Children's Literature. Inkheart ( German : Tintenherz ) is a 2003 young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the Inkheart series, which was continued with Inkspell (2005) and Inkdeath (2007).