About this title: A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. 0525456074 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. 0525456074 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. 0142301930 Very little shelf wear/scratching on outer covers, may have small ding in top corner. Perfect otherwise. Remainder mark Free bookmarks with all orders and all orders ship same or next business day! 451. read more
Description: Fair. 0525456074 Ex-Library book with related stickers and stampings. Dust jacket is torn on top. Plastic cover is also torn. Creasing on pgs throughout. Slight wear on corners and edges from circulation. Clean text and good binding. No international or pri or ity shipping. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Date Published: 2002-10-14
ISBN-13:9780142301937ISBN:0142301930
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Description: Fine. 0142301930 Beautifully illustrated with award winning design. Remainder mark Free bookmarks with all orders and all orders ship same or next business day! 232. read more
Description: Zelinsky, Paul O. Very Good + No Jacket as Issued. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Unpaginated/Illustrated wraps are clean with creases along spine. Text with beautiful illustrations throughout [winner of The Caldecott Medal] is in fine condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780142301937ISBN:0142301930
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: CALDECOTT AWAR
Publisher: Scholastic Pub, NY
Date Published: 1997, 2002
ISBN-13:9780590386029ISBN:0590386026
Description: Glossy Color Ilust. VERY GOOD Condition. 9x12"oversized Paper Covers np 48pg? thin Popular old Fairy Tale retold with magnificent color renaissance drawings. Interesting Background notes. CALDECOTT. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover/glossy Pictorial
Publisher: Scholastic, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780525456070ISBN:0525456074
Description: Very Good. Children's Illustrated Clean, bright, crisp and tight. Writing on endpage. A Caldecott winner. read more
Edition: First Edition Third Printing
Binding: Hardcover/glossy Pictorial
Publisher: Dutton Childrens Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780525456070ISBN:0525456074
Description: Very Good in Fair jacket. Children's Illustrated Clean, bright, crisp and tight. Shelfwear with a two inch tear. A price on endpage. Caldecott sticker a little curled. Looks good in new clear protective jacket. read more
"Wow. I REALLY disliked this book. Maybe it got the Caldecott Medal for it's beautiful illustrations, but what a wretched story. Seriously. My synopsis: "Mom gets hungry. Dad steals greens from a witch's garden. Witch catches him, but lets Mom eat a green salad, in exchange for the baby. (Say what?!) Baby grows up a bit and Witch locks her in a tower. (Uh, why?!) Prince breaks in. They fall in love. (Really?!) They have a secret marriage/nightly visits/blah, blah, blah. Rapunzel thinks she's getting fat; she's really pregnant. (No you didn't!) Witch screams that she's been 'betrayed,' cuts Rapunzel's hair and banishes her, alone, to some distant hole to birth/raise twins. Witch tricks Prince. Prince falls from the tower in agony. Blind, he wanders aimlessly into the wilderness and miraculously finds Rapunzel and the twins. Rapunzel cries on him, her tears heal his blindness, they walk to Prince's kingdom as a family, and live happily ever after." So many things about this book are viscerally repulsive to me. Fathers who barter off their unborn children for a salad. Child abuse. Love at first sight combined with 'happy ever after'. Witches who are wicked just cuz. Women who are uninformed about their own bodies. Women who identify pregnancy by the inability to fit into their clothes. I wanted to puke. Of course, my students (who chose the book from our school library) thought it was the greatest story ever. The illustrations are amazingly rich; they are very much like looking at classic European paintings. (The illustrator said he was heavily influenced by Italian Renaissance painting.) Everyone's fair-skinned and lavishly rich. Sadly, most everything about this book compounded to rub me the wrong way. Blarg..."
"The illustrations are beautiful and the story is well told. I especially like that the author includes a brief history of the fairy tale itself at the end. He uses an Italian Renaissance style for the illustrations, apparently because the first print version (c. 1632) of the Rapunzel story was actually Italian (Petrosinella, from the Italian word for parsley). Then it was adapted by a French author (Persinette, from the French word for parsley) before being adapted again by the Brothers Grimm, who exchanged parsley for rampion (in German, rapunzel). So interesting."
"We all know I love fairy tales! There were several things I really liked about this version of Rapunzel. One was the art. I felt that the illustrations were really beautiful and in the author's note, he explains that he was trying to evoke renaissance art which I think he did really well. He also gives some background on the Rapunzel story, discussing a few different versions of it, how the Grimms changed it, and why he chose to incorporate the elements he did. I feel that is a useful tool for the kids reading the book. The version was actually a bit different from the versions I had read before; it was a really enjoyable experience."
"What an interesting, and beautifully illustrated, rendition of the classic story of Rapunzel! In this verion, when her mother is pregnant with her, the mother has cravings for an herb Rapunzel that grows in the sorceress' garden. I liked that little quirky connector.
Also, when the prince discovers how to get into the tower by climbing up Rapunzel's hair, they fall and love and she gets pregnant but she doesn't know she is pregnant because the only person she has ever seen besides the prince was the sorceress. The sorceress casts her out and she gives birth to twins. All to the warm-toned illustrations of Paul Zelinsky.
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