Cornelia Funke

After I had my pizza at Lou Malnati's next door I went to Cornelia Funke's booksigning of "Inkdeath" at Anderson's Books in Naperville. I was number 76 in line. I had seen her previously when she was in town to sign "Inkheart." My youngest son now has all three of the books in the trilogy signed by her. He's read the first two and enjoys her writing.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrends. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story?