Momo

The Neverending Story is Michael Ende’s best-known book, but Momo—published six years earlier—is the all-ages fantasy masterpiece that first won him wide acclaim. After the sweet-talking grey men come to town, life becomes terminally efficient. Can Momo, a young orphan girl, vanquish the ashen-faced time thieves before joy vanishes forever? With gorgeous new illustrations by Marcel Dzama and a new translation from the German by Lucas Zwirner, this glorious 40th anniversary edition marks the book’s first U.S. publication in over twenty-five years.

Michael Ende is among the world's most celebrated young-adult authors. His books, which were ignored by literary critics for decades, helped invent the concept of the all-ages fantasy novel. He died in 1995.