A MUST HAVE book for any fantasy collection. If you even remotely liked the movie, you will LOVE this meaty German fairytale featuring Luckdragons, exotic landscapes, heroes and villains, father/son relationships, themes of death and love and friendship, green skinned boys who lose their horses in swamps, memories magically lost and restored, princesses, werewolves and vampires and unicorns and Rockbiters and Willow-the-Wisps... I'm hard pressed to think of something this book is LACKING! 
 My first reading of this book was when I was a fourth grade child many years ago, and no rereading has ever disappointed me or left me without something new gleaned, even as an adult.