Maybe it was also the illustrator in me. Painters are known to return to the same motif many times, to finally master it. I promise though, I won’t revise The Petrified Flesh more than once. I have already started the journey of Book IV, which will take me to Japan and far away from Schwanstein, where it all began.
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THE RECKLESS SERIES
I
The Petrified Flesh
II
Living Shadows
III
The Golden Yarn
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© Cornelia Funke and Lionel Wigram, 2010
Illustrations © Cornelia Funke 2010
English language translation © Cornelia Funke and Lionel Wigram, 2010
Inspired by a tale discovered and explored with Lionel Wigram
First published by Pushkin Children’s Books in 2016
ISBN 978 1 782691 27 3
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