"Unapologetic book addicts will delight in Elinor Loredan, the book collector who claims leaving a book open face-down breaks its neck, or Mortimer Folchart, who repeatedly insists he is not the robber-hero famed in song and story people think he is, but merely a bookbinder. Of course Mo, Meggie's father, is no mere bookbinder -- or rather, there is nothing mere about being a bookbinder, a reader or a book lover in Cornelia Funke's story."

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