surely among the most original and gifted of illustrators,Paul O. zelinsky once again has crafted a unique vision of an age -old tale. Drawing on elements from early French and Italian sources as well as from the Grimms ,the artist forth the humanity of Rapunzel, taking us beyond the events of the story to discover its powerful,enduring truths. his stunning oil paintings evoke not a barren ,forbidding tower, but one of esoteric beauty and physical luxury ; not an ugly witch who cruelly imprisons of a young girl,but a mother figure who powerful resists her child's inevitable growth;and two young people who must struggle in the wilderness for the self-reliance that marks the true beginning of adulthood. Resonant with the complex flow f human relationship,this book is a work of rare endeavor.
The biginning of theLong ago,lived a man and a woman who had no children. as year followed year, this was their only sorrow. then one spring, the wife felt her dress growing tight around her waist.Joyfully she said to her husband ,''We are going to have a child at last.''the wife liked to sit by a small window at the back of their house and look down into a beautiful garden belonged to a sorceress, who had enclosed it on all sides with a high wall. No one ever dared to enter it. THIS STORY WILL CONTINUE SOON ''THANKS FOR READING''
