Inkheart

[Tintenherz]
Year: 
2003
Type: 
Public: 
Publisher: 
Chicken House
City: 
2011
Pages: 
576
Moral assessment: 
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality: 
Recommendable: 
Transmits values: 
Sexual content: 
Violent content: 
Vulgar or obscene language: 
Ideas that contradict Church teaching: 
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

Funke writes for children, and has several good titles that have become bestsellers. In this story: Meggie is a little girl of 12, who lives with her father Silvertongue, having lost her mother in a mysterious way. She sees a weird creature talking to her father, and this visit triggers a journey without end, trying to escape to save a very special book. Little by little, Meggie discovers that several characters from the book are very real, and her mother seems to be trapped inside the book. This is a good book for kids (and also older ages), providing a bit for all book readers’ tastes: action, suspense, evil, terror, love and hate.

Author: Jorge Gaspar, Portugal
Update on: Feb 2024