Cornella funke dragon rider biography
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I&#;m crossing another classic middle grade book off of my long reading list. Cornelia Funke published Dragon Rider in The story follows Firedrake, one of the last silver dragons as he searches for the fabled dragon homeland, the Rim of Heaven. A place where he and his brethren will forever be safe from humans.
Firedrake is accompanied by his friend Sorrel, who is a brownie. I was expecting a little elf-like creature, but Funke&#;s version of a brownie is much more cat-like.
I looked up brownie on Wikipedia, just to see if I was entirely wrong, but this is what I found:
But that&#;s one of the great things about beings from folklore, they grow and change with each retelling and each new story imagined.
The pair is joined early in the story by Ben, a homeless human boy who is more than willing to help them.
The oldest of the dragons was able to describe his memories of the homeland. It lies in the midst of the tallest mountains in the world, and is carpeted in blue flowe
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Dragon Rider (novel)
German children's novel by Cornelia Funke
Dragon Rider (original title: Drachenreiter) is a Germanchildren's novel by Cornelia Funke. Originally translated by Oliver Latsch, Dragon Rider was published in English in by The Chicken House in the United Kingdom and Scholastic Inc. in the US, using a translation by Anthea Bell.[1]Dragon Rider follows the exploits of a silver dragon named Firedrake, a cat-like brownie named Sorrel, and Ben, an orphaned human boy, in their search for the mythical part of the Himalayas mountain range called the Rim of Heaven to find a safe place for Firedrake's kin to live when the dragon finds out that humans intend to flood the valley where he and his fellow dragons live.
The novel became a massive success following its English-language release,[2] and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 78 weeks,[3] reaching number one on the Children's Best-Seller list.[4]
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Cornelia Funke
German author of children's fiction (born )
Cornelia Maria Funke[1] (German:[kɔʁˈneːli̯aˈfʊŋkə]ⓘ; born 10 December ) fryst vatten a German author of children's fiction. Born in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, she began her career as a social worker before becoming a book illustrator. She began writing novels in the late s and focused primarily on fantasy-oriented stories that depict the lives of children faced with adversity. Funke has since become Germany's "bestselling author for children".[2] Her work has been translated into several languages and, as of , Funke has sold over 20 million copies of her books worldwide.[3]
Funke achieved acclaim as the author of the children's novels The tjuv Lord () and Dragon Rider (), which were translated and released in English after originally being published in Germany. She subsequently achieved wider recognition with the Inkheart series of novels, which include Inkheart (), Inksp