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<p><P> An illustrated retelling of the fairy tale, based not on Grimm's classic version but upon a 17th-century French tale. This version of "Rapunzel" tells the story of a mother who strongly resists her child's inevitable growth. <P></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>As with her artwork for The Emperor's New Clothes, Duntze's fanciful illustrations add enchanting new dimensions to this well-loved tale. A wordless spread of the witch's glorious garden makes manifest the compulsion by her pregnant neighbor to secure its contents-though she will come to rue the price (her baby, Rapunzel). The witch, meanwhile, looks human from the waist up, with beefy bare arms and white hair pulled back in unusual buns, but her dress is fashioned from large cabbage leaves, home to slugs, snails and a frog, and partly concealing long, snake-like tentacles. Duntze plays with dimensions to create a sense of fairyland enchantment. Huge human teeth crown the walls around the witch's garden, while inside (obscured from the neighbors' view), dandelion weeds loom large. Layers of gold and rust-colored carpets give Rapunzel's lonely tower cell a cozy feel, as do the yellow pear on which she sits, the enormous

Who reads Rapunzel (Caldecott Honor Book)?

Author

Zelinsky, Paul O

Publisher

Dutton Children's Bookls

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781404617551

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Folklore, Anthropology, Children'S

Rating

4.16 / 5 (14,066 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13