Rapunzel (The Classic Fairytale Collection) - Softcover

This title is aimed at children aged between 5 and 11 years old. We never really know where a story will begin or end. This one starts with a head of lettuce...Thus begins John Cech's enchanting retelling of Rapunzel, the tale of a poor couple forced to surrender their newborn daughter to a powerful witch, all for having stolen some lettuce to satisfy the wife's unbearable hunger. And so the witch takes Rapunzel to a secluded tower, where the girl spends her days singing and braiding her long hair. Then, one day, a prince hears her sweet voice and everything changes...Complete with fanciful illustrations by Fiona Sansom, this beautiful book belongs on every fairy tale lover's shelf.

John Cech has been a professor of children's literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville for the past 30 years. Cech is the author of the first six books in the Classic Fairy Tale Collection, as well as Sterling's Aesop's Fables and The Nutcracker. Fiona Sansom studied illustration at Kingston University in the United Kingdom. She is a full-time freelance illustrator and her work appears in the Kingston Museum's Brill Collection.