Michael Ende Books in Order

When growing Jim Button makes his tiny island home overcrowded, he leaves with engine driver Luke and their locomotive Emma. Their journey brings strange landscapes, giants and dragons as they encounter mysteries surrounding Jim's origins.

Momo, a homeless girl with an extraordinary gift for listening, lives in an abandoned amphitheatre. When mysterious men in grey begin stealing people's time, she turns to Professor Hora and the tortoise Cassiopeia for help.

In a kingdom that prizes good sleep, a princess is troubled by frightening dreams. Her father sets out to find help, and his journey brings him to a hungry creature with an unusual appetite for nightmares.

Bastian discovers a mysterious book and becomes absorbed in Atreyu's quest to save Fantastica and its Childlike Empress. Reading turns into participation when Bastian enters the endangered realm and must confront the power of his own wishes.

This collection leads readers through a sequence of surreal stories and images, moving between humor and unease. Its shifting situations form a literary labyrinth that explores how imagination and a reader's perceptions reshape the experience of a book.

After the theater where she works closes, elderly Ophelia welcomes a lonely shadow into her home. More unclaimed shadows follow, forming a company she teaches to perform great plays, until an unusually dark visitor presents a new challenge.

On New Year's Eve, a sorcerer and his witch aunt plan to brew a potion to complete their overdue quota of evil deeds. A cat and a raven have only hours to prevent the resulting destruction.