Rapunzel, after being locked up and away from the world for years and years, finally takes matters into her own hands and, with the help of a friend, rescues the town and her mother from the wicked step-mother and finds love in the end.
Hale, S. and Hale, D. (2008). Rapunzel's ravenge. Bloomsbury Children's Books, New York, NY.
Impressions: The illustrations of this graphic novel are great! I loved the twist on the traditional fairy tale of Rapunzel. Shannon and Dean Hale did an excellent job of writing a graphic novel that is appropriate for all ages.
Review:
Phyllis Thompson (The ALAN Review, Winter 2010 (Vol. 37, No. 2))
If you loved The Goose Girl and Book of a Thousand Days, you are in for another treat. In Rapunzel's Ravenge, author Shannon Hale partners with Dean Hale and Nathan Hale to retell the Grimm's classic as a graphic novel. This is definitely not your grandmother's Rapunzel - the quietly submissive, longsuffering princess, waiting for the prince to rescue her. The Hale's updated teenager-in-a-tower has a big heart, strong braids, and a swashbuckling, high-energy, big-adventure story to tell. This Rapunzel is "WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE for horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!" While Rapunzel's Revenge is definitely the stuff of high adventure and the old West, it is very much a story about growing up female, taking chances, negotiating potentially dangerous landscapes, confronting cruelty and loss, and re-finding the nurture and comfort that can be had in love. Category: Adventure/Growing Up/Self. YA - Young Adult. 2008, Bloomsbury, 144 pp., $14.99. Ages young adult. Johnson City, TN
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Suggestions for classroom/library use:
This book would be a great source for a fairy tale unit, especially one that showcases stories that are a twist on fairy tales.
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