The Ink Drinker - Hardcover

Sanvoisin, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385325916 ISBN 13: 9780385325912

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Spying on customers to pass the time in his father's boring bookstore, a book-hating boy witnesses an unusual patron who sucks up the printed ink from every book with a straw and helps him develop an unlikely taste himself.

About this title

About the Author:

Éric Sanvoisin has written several books for children.

Martin Matje’s illustrations for A Straw for Two, a companion to The Ink Drinker, received the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap:

Book lovers everywhere will adore this twist on an old tale:

This young boy cannot think of a worse way to spend his summer: he has to help his Dad out with his bookstore, and he absolutely hates to read!  His job is to watch the store for shoplifters, but things take a twisted turn when he spies a pale character who seems to float through the aisles of the store.

But this stranger is not trying to steal books--he is drinking the words out of them with a straw!  So the boy goes on a chase to find out what this fellow is all about and they both wind up in a cemetery, where the boy discovers a taste for something much more filling than ink!

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385325916
• ISBN 13: 9780385325912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Matje Martin