Falling For Rapunzel

Falling for Rapunzel
By:  Leah Wilcox
Illustrated by:  Lydia Monks
Published by:  G.P. Putnam Sons
Picture Books

                                                                    Falling for Rapunzel


      Falling for Rapunzel is such a cute book because the story it not what you expect when you hear "Rapunzel". In fact it has a completely different ending than the Rapunzel fairytale. It was a laugh out loud story because of the miscommunication between Rapunzel and the prince.
      I did not recognize neither the author or the illustrator. As stated before, I am not an expert in art, but my best guess is that the illustration are of water color paintings. It was interesting because the colors used in this book are bright and happy. It very much enhanced the text because it demonstrated and emphasized the silliness of the miscommunication. For example, seeing the maid thrown out the window and landing on the prince made the idea more funny. The beginning and ending pages of the book foreshadow what is going to be thrown out of the window. It motivates the reader to continue reading because of the color it uses. I think that it is interesting that these pages colors are blue and pink. It almost seems as though they did it on purpose to cover the "typical" colors of boys and girls. This way boy would be more likely to read a book with the name Rapunzel in it.
     I would absolutely love to have this in my library because it was a funny story with a twist from the original. It would also definitely help build reading skills because it uses words that sound alike. For example "lock" and "sock" they sound the same but are obviously very different.