The Neverending Story [Paperback]

Read the book that inspired the classic coming-of-age film! From award-winning German author Michael Ende,The Neverending Storyis a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life. 

When Bastian happens upon an old book calledThe Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica--so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story! And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in great danger, he also discovers that he is the one chosen to save it. Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica?


An instantaneous leap into the magical . . . Energetic, innovative, and perceptive —The Washington Post

A trumpet blast for the imagination. —Sunday TimesPraise forThe Neverending Story...

An instantaneous leap into the magical … Energetic, innovative, and perceptive —The Washington Post

A rich, enjoyable read … Succeeds by drawing in the most potent elements of fairytale, myth, and invented fantasy. —The Observer

You might just get in touch with the child in you who clapped her hands for Tinker Bell. —Glamour

A trumpet blast for the imagination. —Sunday TimesMichael Ende (www.michaelende.de)was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 1929. After attending drama school from 1948 to 1950, he worked variously as an actor, a writer of sketches and plays, a director of the Volkstheater in Munich, and a film critic for the Bavarian broadcasting company. His first novel for children,Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver, was published in Germany in 1960 to great popular and critical acclaim, and both radio and televsion series based on theJim Knopfbooks were soon produced. In 1973 he published another award-winning childrelÓ*