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Emma and the Blue Genie Audiobook
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The beloved and bestselling author of Inkheart brings her signature imagination, adventure, and humor to a magical full-color chapter book for young readers!
One night, Emma finds a mysterious green bottle floating in the ocean. When she pulls out the stopper, she sets a blue genie free! Most genies grant three wishes, but Karim can’t grant even one anymore. A yellow genie stole his magic nose ring, leaving him small, powerless, and trapped in that bottle. Emma and her noodle-tailed dog have to help Karim get his nose ring—and his magic—back!
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“Emma and her dog, Tristan, stealdown to the moonlit sea for some quiet time and find a mysterious bottlebobbing on the waves; inside, of course, is a genie…With tight word counts,restrictive vocabulary, and language parameters, chapter books rely on theiraudience to fill in details from shared cultural assumptions. In anincreasingly diverse society, notions of what is normal and what is exotic toreaders call for frequent reassessment. Training wheels for Funke’s futurefans.”
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“Funke spins her fictional magic in this witty novel, written in 2002 and newly translated by Latsch, starring an eight-year-old girl with four pesky brothers…Funke’s visual descriptions and playful dialogue lift this above standard good-versus-evil fantasy fare.”
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“Eight-year-old Emma and her pup Tristan wander out to the beach one night to sit and dream of faraway lands. What this girl and her ‘noodle-tailed dog’ don’t expect is for her wishes to be answered by a glowing bottle bobbing along in the waves…The author’s love of spirited heroines and skilled hand at prose make this a pleasure to read and share…A fun fantasy romp.”
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“There are distinct benefits to hearing this audiobook read by its author. There’s no ambiguity about the mood, and the pacing is perfect, with pauses in all the right places…Cornelia Funke delivers straightforward humor and breathless suspense in a style usually reserved for older listeners. Her soft, low, German-accented voice will captivate elementary school listeners with its exotic air of adventure.”
— AudioFile
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About Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke is a multiple award–winning German author, best known for writing the Inkworld trilogy as well as The Thief Lord. The Inkworld books, which have won the 2003 Mildred L. Batchelder Award as well as the 2004 and 2006 BookSense Book of the Year Children’s Literature Awards, have gained incredible attention, and Funke has been dubbed the “German J. K. Rowling.” She currently lives in Los Angeles.