Since the disappearance of her mother, Meggie lives alone with his father a bookbinder Mo recognized one evening a strange man comes to talk to him, he is in search of a mysterious book. This book will lead you in mysterious adventures with fairies, fire-eaters, in short, a real book of fairy tale. A very good novel, it reads well but you still have to stay focused because there are a lot of different characters. Know that it is a trilogy with the second volume Sang ink and the third ink Death. If you enjoyed this book then also read The rider of the same author dragon. I also found that this book is much like The Neverending Story, a classic. This book was made into a film.