Top Retellings of Classic Tales
Maria Sokolova
Maria Sokolova asked Cornelia Funke:

Dear Cornelia, first of all I'd like to thank you so much for your books. I love them from the bottom of my heart! They're gorgeous! And I'm totally in love with your characters. Actually I have several questions to you. My first question is about Reckless. Have you inspired the Brothers Grimm fairytales while writing you story? What fairytales impressed you the most and had the most vivid reflection in Mirrorworld?

Cornelia Funke thank you for reading my book Maria!:) The Reckless books all play with motives from Fairy Tales, but from very different countries: Book 1-Germany, Austria (So yes, Grimm's Tales), Book 2 France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Book 3, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia etc, Book 4 Japan (I am currently writing that one:)
There are too many tales that inspired Mirrorworld:) I plan to at some point publish lists of the most important ones, probably when I am done with all the books:)
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Sue
Sue asked Cornelia Funke:

zwar keine frage ,aber ich wollte mich einmal bedanken: mein erstes funke-buch las ich in der Grundschule, wo Emma und der blaue Dschinn Klassenlektüre war. mittlerweile habe ich in meinem Regal unzählige deiner Bücher stehen(die Tintenweltbücher zählen zu meinen liebsten überhaupt)und greife immer wieder zu ihnen, um mich an den Charakteren, den Geschichten, den Illustrationen und dem Schreibstil zu erfreuen-danke! ?

A Goodreads user
A Goodreads user asked Cornelia Funke:

Hallo, Ich war am 25.09. bei ihrer Lesung in der Hamburger St. Katherien und wollte mich im Nachhinein noch einmal ganz doll bedanken, dass sie all unsere Fragen beantwortet und uns einen so schönen Vorlese-Abend beschert haben! Ich hoffe, sie hatten auch Spaß und beehren uns Hamburger Fans und Leseratten bald wieder!? Vielen Dank Svea

A Goodreads user
A Goodreads user asked Cornelia Funke:

I LOVE your books!!! I recently read Dragon Rider, and Thief Lord. When I found out that there's a sequel coming out to both of those I was exited, but when exactly are they coming out? P.S. I got Inkheart (the movie) for Christmas Exited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (your my favorite author by far!)

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