Michael Ende

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A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book, he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment— but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian, and...

From award-winning author Michael Ende, The Neverending Story is a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life. Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o'-the-wisps—the inhabitants of an enchanted world. And into this world—through the pages of an old book—ventures Bastian, a lonely boy of ten or twelve. But Fantastica is slowly decaying, its Childlike Empress dying. Only...

Read the book that inspired the classic coming-of-age film! From award-winning German author Michael Ende, The Neverending Story is a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life. When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica—so much that he finds he has actually become...