The Thief Lord (original title: Herr der Diebe) is a children's novel written by the 54-year-old multiple award-winning German author Cornelia Funke. It was published in Germany in 2000 and translated into English by Oliver Latsch in 2002 for The Chicken House, a division of Scholastic publishing company. The book has been a New York Times bestseller and a USA Today bestseller!
It was also adapted into a British-German family film in 2006 and was directed by Richard Claus.
Funke has also won several awards specifically for The Thief Lord, namely:
The story is about Prosper and Bo who, after their mother's death, ran away from their unpleasant aunt Esther because she planned to adopt Bo and send Prosper off to boarding school. Arriving in Venice, Prosper and Bo fall in with a small group of children who live in an abandoned theater and make a living by stealing, led by a boy who calls himself the Thief Lord.
Tracked by an eccentric detective hired by their aunt, the children instead capture the detective and hold him prisoner while planning a theft, commissioned by a mysterious Conte, of a broken wooden wing that comes from a legendary, and possibly magical, carousel.
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