Rapunzel

Zelinsky, P., & Beniker, A. (1997). Rapunzel. New York: Dutton Children's

Books.

This adaptation includes elements from many folklore tales of Rapunzel. This story of Rapunzel begins with a couple who, after many years together, find that they are expecting a child. However, the wife is desperately craving rapunzel, an herb that grows in the walled garden of the sorceress next door.

To save his wife's life, the husband steals rapunzel from this garden, only to be caught in the act by the angry sorceress. In return for sparing his life (and the rapunzel he holds), she demands that the husband promise her the newborn child, whom she will name Rapunzel.

There follows the well-known story of a long-haired girl locked in an inaccessible tower, until a prince finds her and wins her heart.