Second quarter Outside Reading Book Review

Second Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke, Chicken House Publishing, in German in 2000. Genre: Fiction


The Thief Lord, starts when two boys , Prosper and Bo’s mother dies so they go to live with their aunt ester and uncle Max. They only wanted Bo though so Prosper convinced Bo to run away to Venice with him. They were basically adopted by a group of orphan kids. The kids share many adventures during their times in Venice, trying to get away from a detective trying to bring them back to Ester and Max, and learning more about the thief lord who supplies all the orphans with food and clothes.

Barbarossa: Three hundred for the lot; most of it's rubbish.
Prosper: Eight.
Barbarossa: Four.
Prosper: Seven.
Barbarossa: Four seven-five.
Prosper: Six eight-seven and a half.
This quote shows me that Prosper is very smart and is able to get out of any sticky situation.

This book reminds me of the book Watership Down because prosper and Bo had to go out on their own with their friends, ad that is exactly what the rabbits had to do in Watership down.
In Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke shows how the orphan kids, Prosper, Bo, Hornet, Riccio, and Mosca grow up and change their bad habits throuout the course of the book.

“Do you know what happens here after dark? Things little eyes should never, ever see.” This makes you the reader want to keep reading to find out what they are talking about.


I really liked Cornelia Funke’s book, Thief Lord. I have her next book Inkheart, which I plan on reading. The book has affected me because it kind of made me think how even though people are young they can still do great things. What I didn’t like about the book was how it was so drawn out. I think the book could have ended up to 50 pages earlier.