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Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.

As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, and demands that Bluejay either surrender or doom the children to slavery in the silver mines.

A guide to bookbinding, describing all the tools and materials necessary for creating handmade books, and providing photographs, illustrations, and detailed instructions for seven basic book structures, each followed by a number of variations in technique.

An introduction to book making that discusses its history, the different types and parts of books, binding techniques, supplies, tools, measuring, cutting, folding, professional bookbinders, and printing houses; and includes directions for six projects.

Readers learn how to create comic books along with twelve-year-old friends Lila and Ecco, whose love of comics leads them to take a workshop about making comics and graphic novels at the local comic book convention.

Anna, the daughter of an old-fashioned bookbinder who values skill over speed, tries to help her father when her mother goes into labor the night before an important project is due.

Explains basic book repair techniques useful to libraries with limited budgets, as well as alternative, more ambitious conservation treatments, covering paper cleaning and mending, water damage, mold and mildew, hinge and spine repair, and protective enclosures.

Provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions to create eight books, including a photo album, a lift-the-flaps, and an address book.

Describes various techniques for designing books and illustrates a number of hand binding methods for use with children.

An illustrated introduction to bookbinding structures, from simple to complex; with advice on tools and materials.

Presents a simple guide to making paper, decorating book covers, and binding books, and contains easy instructions, safety tips, and full-color illustrated photographs.

Meggie learns that her father's gift of being able to bring to life people and things he reads about in books has been passed on to her and tries to use the power to rescue her mother, who was pulled into the pages of a fantasy novel when Meggie was a child.

A step-by-step guide to create beautiful handmade scrapbooks, photo albums, diaries, blank books, and more!.

Photographs and step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to create unique crafts using books, combining the techniques of woodworking, bookbinding, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts to transform ordinary books into extraordinary objects.

Contains instructions with photographs and step-by-step illustrations to create a variety of handmade books, including traditional and mixed media book binding projects, and offering a second variation for each project, tips on materials, and other resources.