Rapunzel (Caldecott Honor Book) Hardcover - 1997
by Brothers Grimm; Zelinsky, Paul O. [Adapter]; Zelinsky, Paul O. [Illustrator];
- New
- Hardcover
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.
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Details
- Title Rapunzel (Caldecott Honor Book)
- Author Brothers Grimm; Zelinsky, Paul O. [Adapter]; Zelinsky, Paul O. [Illustrator];
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition New
- Pages 48
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dutton Books for Young Readers, New York
- Date 1997-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0525456074_new
- ISBN 9780525456070 / 0525456074
- Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 12.38 x 9.32 x 0.39 in (31.45 x 23.67 x 0.99 cm)
- Ages 06 to 09 years
- Grade levels 1 - 4
- Reading level 700
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales, Folklore
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96050260
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.209
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Summary
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 beginning of 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.
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Citations
- ALA Notable Children's Books, 01/01/1998, Page 1224
- Booklist, 11/15/1997, Page 559
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/1997, Page 115
- Kirkus Review - Children, 10/01/1997, Page 1540
- New York Times, 11/16/1997, Page 54
- Publishers Weekly, 09/29/1997, Page 89
- School Library Journal, 11/01/1997, Page 113
- SLJ's Best Books, 12/01/1997, Page 29
