A so Meggie heard her father read aloud, for the first time in nine years, in a draughty old church. Even many years later the smell of burnt paper would come back to her as soon as she opened one of the books from when he read that awful morning. It was chapter omomho SCHOLASTIC Inkheart is a young adult fantasy novel by German author Cornelia Funke, initially published in 2003. It was adapted into a major motion picture in 2008.