Rapunzel Contributor(s): Zelinsky, Paul O. (Retold by), Brothers Grimm (Author), Zelinsky, Paul O. (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0525456074 ISBN-13: 9780525456070 Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: One of the most original and gifted of children's book illustrators has once again brought forth a unique vision for an age-old tale. Zelinsky's retelling of "Rapunzel" captures the possessiveness, confinement, and separation of a late 17th-century French tale by Mlle. la Force, where a mother powerfully resists her child's inevitable growth. Full color. 1998 Caldecott Award. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic - General - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Parents - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women |
Dewey: 398.209 |
LCCN: 96050260 |
Lexile Measure: 700 |
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 9.32" W x 12.38" (1.06 lbs) 48 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 29284 Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Surely among the most original and gifted of children's book illustrators, Paul O. Zelinsky has once again with unmatched emotional authority, control of space, and narrativecapability brought forth a unique vision for an age-old tale. Few artists at work today can touch the level at which his paintings tell a story and exert their hold. Zelinsky's retelling of Rapunzel reaches back beyond the Grimms to a late-seventeenth-century French tale by Mlle. la Force, who based hers on the Neapolitan tale Petrosinella in a collection popular at the time. The artist understands the story's fundamentals to be about possessiveness, confinement, and separation, rather than about punishment and deprivation. Thus the tower the sorceress gives Rapunzel here is not a desolate, barren structure of denial but one of esoteric beauty on the outside and physical luxury within. And the world the artist creates through the elements in his paintings the palette, control of light, landscape, characters, architecture, interiors, costumes speaks to us not of an ugly witch who cruelly imprisons a beautiful young girl, but of a mother figure who powerfully resists her child's inevitable growth, and of a young woman and man who must struggle in the wilderness for the self-reliance that is the true beginningof their adulthood. As ever, and yet always somehow in newly arresting fashion, Paul O. Zelinsky's work thrillingly shows us the events of the story while guiding us beyond them to the truths that have made it endure. |