She's wise and strong, a lithe and brave little warrior whose loyalty and selflessness is unbendable. I admit to a partiality for Fox, a shapeshifting young girl who scampers around as a golden-eyed red fox most of the time. Even if she wasn't on 'our side.' How did that happen?Characters such as Jacob, Will and Fox are sure favorites. old Nesser, the Fairy-cursed Goyl.'amethyst suffused' jasper stoned skin with golden eyes. Visually, I found myself wanting to look like 13 yr. We are drawn in by the details and reactions of her characters, and, as we accompany them we believe in the action moment by moment. She creates a plausible world that is fantastical at the same time. Sleeping Beauty with parchment yellow-colored skin and brittle straw-like hair laying with unseeing eyes while her prospective, unsuccessful 'princes'' bodies hang garishly disemboweled by sword-like rose thorns, gave me a sad twinge! Shiver.Cornelia Funke's use of imagery and wordsmithing is mastered by few others in this genre.

It's 'Reckless.'Fairy tales do not wholly dominate the book, there are only elements of the twisted and familiar stories we grew up with in 'Reckless.' Some of those that frightened and enchanted us are included, but Funke revisits them from another, more adult perspective. It has a story to tell and a moral to the story. It's a heroic, charmingly dark, gothic and mystical book. Her fingers seem tipped with fairy wings, overtaken by an enchantment in order to make such strikingly beautiful pictures to accompany her story.Here is a treasure fit for a king's child. Hers is a book grafted throughout with fairy tales. Now comes Ms Cornelia Funke who has written and created illustrations for her painstakingly crafted book. Children don't read fairy tales like we used to. Teachng, love and loss, psychology, empathy, art, imagination.so important archetypical, as our professors would say.

Fairy tales and their illustrations were so much a part of developing our imaginations they helped to lay the foundation of our creative minds.

Weren't our minds caught up in visions of the beauty, the magic and the color of those dark tales.didn't we all understand that pain and horror had to come before the happily ever after? Fairy tales were my bread and butter reading undoubtedly they laid some kind of subconscious footwork in my life. Like so many of you, I learned to read by fairy tales.

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