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Bo into the magical underworld of Venice with The Thief Lord and rode on the scaly back of Firedrake, a young silver dragon, as we set off to find the Rim of Heaven. I was the Dragon Rider. I hadn’t read fantasy adventure for a long time but now I devoured it ….Ingrid Law’s Savy, Christopher Paolini’s Eragon and Stefan Bachmann’s The Peculiars.
Sometime after finishing the INKHEART trilogy I was asked by a young library patron for a good fantasy read. “Follow me,”
I said eager to enlist a new
INKHEART aficionado. On the walk to the “F” section in junior fiction I began to give the reader a taste of the tale. Ah, here we are…F for Funke, and here is INKHEART. The book had the same red cover, but not the same illustration, so it lacked the pull that said READ ME! I took the book from the shelf, handed it to the child and said, you can’t judge a book by its cover.
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Linda Walker (Writing Fellow 2005) was a teacher for 33 years with experience in several grade levels including teaching children with learning disabilities and the gifted. For many summers Linda has facilitated two specialty courses, Young History Writers and Young Nature Writers, for West Chester University’s Young Writers and Readers Program. She has been published in Highlights for Children. lwalker@outdrs.net