The Neverending Story

Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill.

Michael Ende worked as an actor, director, playwright, and film critic as well as a children's book author. He published many acclaimed children's books in his native Germany. The Neverending Story topped the best-seller lists there for three years and went on to be translated into more than thirty languages and made into a major motion picture. Mr. Ende died in 1995. Ralph Manheim translated many notable works from the German, including The Three-penny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht. His translation of Tales for Young and Old, by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, is considered by many to be the premier English edition of the Brothers Grimm. Mr. Manheim died in 1992.