Dragon Rider #3: The Aurelia Curse Award-winning author by Cornelia Funke (author)

The third dragon adventure from the legendary author of Inkheart, Cornelia Funke – over one million English language copies of DRAGON RIDER sold worldwide, and now a major movie on Sky Cinema! ‘A warm-hearted dream of a book.’ THE GUARDIAN on Dragon Rider

Ben and the Greenblooms must protect a mythical new creature rising from the ocean that can bring light or darkness to whoever it first meets – a vast, mythical Aurelia.

It’s a race against time to protect it, for if the Aurelia is hurt, all fabulous creatures will vanish from Earth. In the end though, it may take the arrival of the original silver dragon, Firedrake, to help save them all …

Dragons, myth and magic unite in the third instalment of Cornelia Funke’s bestselling epic fantasy-adventure series!

Dragon Rider has now been adapted for the big screen in a major animation with a stellar cast including Felicity Jones and Patrick Stewart, available on Sky Cinema.

Features stunning cover artwork and maps from Laura Ellen Anderson.

Product Details

Series

Dragon Rider (book 3)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781911077985

Publisher

Chicken House Ltd

Date published

October 7th, 2021

Lexile measure

770L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.2; Middle years; 13.0 points

Other details

384 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Dragon Rider

Author/Illustrator

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke is the hugely successful author of the Inkheart Trilogy, The Thief Lord and a whole host of other popular children’s novels and picture books. She was born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten. After finishing her studies, Cornelia worked for three years as a social worker. For a while she illustrated books, but soon began writing her own stories, inspired by the tales that had appealed to the children she had worked with.

During the late 1980s and the 1990s, she established herself in Germany with two children’s series, namely the fantasy-oriented Gespensterjäger (Ghosthunters) and the Wilde Hühner (Wild Chicks) line of books. Her international break-through came with the fantasy novel Dragon Rider (1996), which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 78 weeks, and was continued with The Thief Lord (2000, translated into English in 2002), which immediately climbed to the #2 position of the New York Times bestseller list, stayed there for 19 weeks and sold 1.5 million copies.

Her follow-up novel was Inkheart (2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award. Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Cornelia her second BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature award (2006). The trilogy concluded with Inkdeath (published in Germany in 2007, England in Spring 2008, USA Autumn 2008). Inkheart the movie was also released in 2008 and starred Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren and Paul Bettany.

Cornelia’s brand new novel Reckless is released worldwide on September 14th 2010.