Michael Ende

Jeopardized by an encroaching void known as The Nothing, the creatures of Fantasia, and its Child-Empress must rely on the young warrior Atreyu and on the faith of Bastian, who by reading the book about Atreyu's adventures, has lived and suffered with them all; Bastian returns to his fantasy world, where he must save it from an evil sorceress, and discovers the courage he lacks in real life.