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.
Other books by this author
Awful Ogre’s Awful Day
Illustrator:
Paul O. Zelinsky Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Poetry, Fairytales, Folk Tales, and Tall Tales 
Knick-Knack Paddywack
Age Level:
0-3 
Rumpelstiltskin
Age Level:
6-9