The author of 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports readers to a magical world.
We wish the rest of you a long, safe, unutterably dull and boring life.
Only those intrepid souls who are prepared to join Yarnspinner on his perilous journey should read this book.
In The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers transports us to a magical world where reading is a remarkable adventure.
Soon, though, Yarnspinner falls into the clutches of the city\'s evil genius, Pfistomel Smyke, who treacherously maroons him in the labyrinthine catacombs underneath the city, where reading Books can be genuinely dangerous.
His nostrils are assailed by clouds of book dust, the stimulating scent of ancient leather, and the tang of printer\'s ink.
On entering its streets, our hero feels as if he has opened the door of a gigantic second-hand bookshop.
The search for the author\'s identity takes Yarnspinner to Bookholm--the so-called City of Dreaming Books.
Optimus Yarnspinner finds himself marooned in the subterranean world of Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, where reading can be dangerous, and ruthless Bookhunters fight to the death.
The author of 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports readers to a magical world
