I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

Beauty and fear make uneasy companions