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Zottelkralle, das Erdmonster
Author Cornelia Maria Funke was born in Dorsten, Germany on December 10, After graduating from the University of Hamburg, she worked as a social worker for three years. After completing a course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design, she worked as a children's book illustrator and designed board games. Her desire to draw magical worlds and her disappointment over the way some stories were written inspired her to write her own children's books. Her book, The Thief Lord, won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the best translated children's book of the year and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award. She has also received the Book Sense Children's Literature Award for Inkheart and Inkspell. Funke has written numerous books including Dragon Rider, When Santa Fell to Earth, Igraine The Brave, Reckless, Saving Mississippi, Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, Igraine the Brave, and The Princess Knight. Inkheart was adapted into a film. Cornelia Funke was voted into the Time magazine's list of the most influential people of
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July 24,Ruffleclaw is a furry red earth monster who lives in a burrow. One day, he decides to move into a house full of humans. Though no one invited him, Ruffleclaw lets himself into the house and climbs into bed with a little boy named Tommy. Come morning, Tommy is shocked to find a monster in his bed, but decides to keep him. Tommy soon learns that earth monsters are messy creatures, and he must teach his monster to behave if wants to convince his mom to let him keep Ruffleclaw.
Like any other earth monster’s burrow, Ruffleclaw’s home smelled of earthworms and millipedes, but the floor was covered with soft sweaters, and piled high in the corners were all the human things he had snuck away with over time.
Ruffleclaw is an irascible monster. His hobbies include eating earthworms and collecting human things. He loves the sound of Tommy’s mom playing piano and the taste of shampoo. And he conveys his enthusaiams by using words like slimalicious and creepy-crawladocious!
However, Ruffleclaw is also something of an insufferable child.
But in return, Ruffleclaw had to promise again to stay put. The monster licked his claws and chuckled quietly. What a piCornelia Funke Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
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