Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky is absolutely beautiful and much deserving of the 1998 Caldecott Award. Zelinsky explains in the note at the end that he was trying to imitate the Renaissance style of art because that is what he thought of when he recalled the story of a girl in a tower. The story is a retelling of the Brothers Grimm and was highly appropriate for children. I highly recommend this book.
It’s true, there is lots of text on each page. My three-year-old son still struggles to sit still (he wanted to read the story of Rapunzel as told by Disney’s Tangled, I think) but for the older child who loves the story, this is wonderful edition.
