Together with Fox, his beautiful shape shifting friend, Jacob has no choice but to follow his brother on the trail of the Dark Fairy, who has fled deep into the East: to a land of folklore, Cossacks, spies, time eating witches and flying carpets. After a perilous encounter with an Alder Elf - an immortal, trick turning creature to whom he owes a great debt - Jacob must journey back into the enchanted Mirrorworld once again. And there's nothing Jacob can do to stop them. The worlds on either side of the mirror are about to collide. Only Clara is based on the daughter of a Scottish friend, though her hair color is different in the book.Paperback. Unlike writing Inkheart and the subsequent novels in the Inkheart series, Funke did not visually base many characters on people she knew. Īfter deciding to work on the series, it took Funke three years to write the first novel, Reckless, due to another novel she was writing at the time. Funke loved the idea so much she asked Wingram if she could turn it into a novel he agreed, but requested that he be involved in the creative process. Mirrorworld is Cornelia Funke's first series of novels in which she has collaborated with another person this is because, whilst working on a script idea with Lionel Wingram, they both 'discovered' the story.

In future novels, Funke plans to include fairy tales from other cultures such as Spain, France and Russia.

The series, based on 19th Century Europe, features many elements of fairy tales, notably the tales of the German Brothers Grimm. As of 2016, the first three books in the series have been published, titled Reckless, Fearless and The Golden Yarn.

The MirrorWorld is a planned pentalogy of fantasy novels written by German author Cornelia Funke in collaboration with Lionel Wigram. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as Reflinks ( documentation), reFill ( documentation) and Citation bot ( documentation). Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot.

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