How would you encourage middle-school students to feel comfortable writing poetry as a form of creative expression?
Cornelia Funke was an illustrator before she became the well-known author of the Inkheart books. She talks about the Ink World in our exclusive video and reads aloud from the final book in the trilogy, Inkdeath. In November 2008 Cornelia Funke herself joined the Message Board to answer some students’ questions!
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