The legendary classic! Epic battles, dark evil. See the world from a dragon’s back. Do you love Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart trilogy? Then read the glorious fantasy that made her name. Danger has come to the valley of dragons. Danger in the form of humans: destroyers who kill all the magic and leave only legends behind. But some humans are different, like Ben. (Or like you.) And some dragons are destined for greatness. Will Firedrake and his human rider triumph in their daring quest? They must find the legendary haven where silver dragons can live in peace. But a terrifying enemy is always close behind…

A stunning new edition of the New York Times bestseller

A magical classic with over 100,000 copies sold in the UK

By the bestselling author of Inkheart and The Thief Lord

Look out for the new sequel, The Griffin’s Feather

Product Details

Series

Dragon Rider (book 1)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781911077855

Publisher

Chicken House Ltd

Date published

July 6th, 2017

Other details

400 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Series

Dragon Rider

Author/Illustrator

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke is the hugely successful author of the Inkheart Trilogy, The Thief Lord and a whole host of other popular children’s novels and picture books. She was born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten. After finishing her studies, Cornelia worked for three years as a social worker. For a while she illustrated books, but soon began writing her own stories, inspired by the tales that had appealed to the children she had worked with.

During the late 1980s and the 1990s, she established herself in Germany with two children’s series, namely the fantasy-oriented Gespensterjäger (Ghosthunters) and the Wilde Hühner (Wild Chicks) line of books. Her international break-through came with the fantasy novel Dragon Rider (1996), which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 78 weeks, and was continued with The Thief Lord (2000, translated into English in 2002), which immediately climbed to the #2 position of the New York Times bestseller list, stayed there for 19 weeks and sold 1.5 million copies.

Her follow-up novel was Inkheart (2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award. Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Cornelia her second BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award (2006). The trilogy concluded with Inkdeath (published in Germany in 2007, England in Spring 2008, USA Autumn 2008). Inkheart the movie was also released in 2008 and starred Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren and Paul Bettany.

Cornelia’s brand new novel Reckless is released worldwide on September 14th 2010.