They angrily confront Victor, who informs them that he did not direct the police's attention there. When they return to the theater, Hornet and Bo are gone, leaving a note that there were police at the door. The group speeds off and regroups at the pie. Morosina rushes out with a shotgun and two huge dogs firing away randomly into the night.
Suddenly Ida drops the binoculars she was using into the lagoon. They watch the pair unload the wing and go inside. They follow the Conte through a maze of islands to one in particular called Isola Segretta. They join Ida and Scipio, meet with the Conte and his sister, Morosina, and make the exchange. The next night, all of the children go for the deal except Hornet and Bo. She agrees to let them have the wing if they let her accompany them to the exchange. It has the ability to change a person's age. When they explain, Ida tells them the story of the wing, which came from a magical merry-go-round. In the following argument, Ida is awakened by the racket that the children make and confronts them with an old rifle. Arrived in her house, the children meet Scipio, who wants to steal the wing as well. The children leave that night to steal it from a woman called Ida Spavento.
While they are gone, Victor escapes, leaving a note that he will not reveal their location if they do not steal the precious lion's wing. When Prosper confronts Scipio, he learns that Scipio is indeed Dottor Massimo's son. When Victor arrives at the Stella, the optic clan ambushes him.
In his search for the theater, Victor visits the home of Dottor Massimo, the owner of the Stella, where he sees Scipio, who is actually the son of the rich Dottor Massimo. When the rest of the children see Victor, they cause a distraction and run away, taking his wallet with them.
Bo accidentally lets slip that he lives in old movie theaters. Victor recognizes the boys on the street and manages to initiate a conversation with innocent little Bo. The runaway boys' aunt and uncle figure out where they are and set a detective, Victor Getz, on their trail. A customer of Barbarossa, calling himself the Conte, asks the "Thief Lord" to steal a wooden lion's wing for him. He appears to steal valuables and the orphan group sells them to a sly shopkeeper, Ernesto Barbarossa. They are taken in by a group of street children who live in an abandoned movie theater, the Stella, and are led by a proud orphan named Scipio. The Thief Lord follows the story of two brothers, Prosper and Boniface (Bo), who run away to Venice, Italy. It was published in Germany in 2000 and translated into English by Oliver Latsch in 2002 for The Chicken House, a division of Scholastic publishing company. The Thief Lord is a children's novel written by Cornelia Funke. His work has been shortlisted for several prestigious illustration prizes, including the Mother Goose Award, the Kurt Maschler Award, and the Kate Greenaway Medal.English book cover by in English from Chicken House Publishing, Ltd and Scholastic. Birmingham has illustrated many books for children. She lives in Los Angeles, California, in a house filled with books. And posing an even greater threat to the boys' freedom is something from a forgotten past: a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself.Ībout the Author Cornelia Funke is the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider, and the Inkheart trilogy, along with many other chapter and picture books for younger readers. But their cruel aunt and a bumbling detective are on their trail. Leader of this motley crew of lost children is a clever, charming boy with a dark history of his own: He calls himself the Thief Lord.Propser and Bo relish their new family and life of petty crime. Two orphaned brothers, Prosper and Bo, have run away to Venice, where crumbling canals and misty alleyways shelter a secret community of street urchins. The leader of this motley crew of lost children is a clever, charming boy with a dark history of his own: he calls himself the Thief Lord.īook Synopsis The enchanting international bestseller with bonus back matter and a beautiful new cover! About the Book Two orphaned brothers run away to Venice, where crumbling canals and misty alleyways shelter a secret community of street urchins.