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Rapunzel's Revenge | 
 enlarge | Authors: Shannon Hale, Dean Hale
Creator: Nathan Hale
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 7390
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 7.9 x 1
ISBN: 159990070X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781599900704
ASIN: 159990070X
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother. Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she finally climbed to the top of the wall and looked over into the mines and desert beyond. Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale teams up with husband Dean Hale and brilliant artist Nathan Hale (no relation) to bring readers a swashbuckling and hilarious twist on the classic story as you’ve never seen it before. Watch as Rapunzel and her amazing hair team up with Jack (of beanstalk fame) to gallop around the wild and western landscape, changing lives, righting wrongs, and bringing joy to every soul they encounter.
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 Loved it! September 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent read for any age. It feels real and is funny as heck with beautiful, fresh illustrations. Totally appropriate in every way as well. I read it to my 8 and 5 year old brothers and had the entire family listening in. I recommend it to anyone who loves stories.
A Western Fairy Tale September 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a graphic novel in the truest sense of the word, a done-in-one novel length comic book. It's intended for, and marketed to, the middle reader set (ages 9 to 12), but it's just as suitable for young adults and adults alike.
Rapunzel's Revenge takes place in a fairy-tale-version of the American west, in which standard fairy tale tropes are recast in western idioms. The main character is Rapunzel, a young girl raised in a well-guarded villa by a woman she thinks is her mother. When Rapunzel learns that the woman is in fact an evil sorceress who rules the land with an iron fist, she tries to escape, only to end up imprisoned in a high tower, her hair cursed to grow endlessly. But rather than waiting for any handsome prince to come along and rescue her, Rapunzel simply braids her hair into two long rope-like braids, frees herself, and then using her braids as lariats and whips sets out to end the sorceress's rule once and for all. She meets up with a young ne'er-do-well named Jack, who is down on his luck until his pet goose finally lays an egg, and together they travel across the deserts and forests, having adventures. Highly recommended.
A fun change... September 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I loved this book!! Being mother of 4 and loving the Young Adult books that Hale so beautifully writes, I was just excited for her next book. Then I got it in the mail and saw that it was a comic book! I was so surprised, but very happy. I sat down and started reading with my 8 year old daughter and my 6 year old son. They LOVED IT! I would find them reading it in their rooms when they were supposed to be doing chores, sneaking it outside, and hiding in our 'library' with it in their laps and noses burried deep. How can you say 'no' to a clean, witty, action/adventure that keeps the kids' attention? A must for family readers!
A great book by a great author September 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Rapunzel's Revenge is a great book by a great author.
Shannon Hale retells the classic tale of Rapunzel with a little bit of a Mother Goose (Gothel?) tie-in in a wonderfully comic-book style illustrated book.
Hale is funny and thoughtful in creating this new version of Rapunzel, a heroine who realizes that the woman who has been raising her is NOT her mother and that her real mother has been slaving away in Mother Gothel's mines. When Rapunzel rebels, Mother Gothel places her in a towering tree room. Mother Gothel posesses growth magic and so the tree is able to provide everything Rapunzel needs to survive for several years.
Finally on Rapunzel's 16th birthday (after her hair has grown to ridiculous lengths, like everything else in the Forest) Rapunzel rebels for the last time and Mother Gothel commands the tree to stop providing food and shelter. Rapunzel uses her hair to swing to safety and the real adventure starts from there.
Rapunzel immediately meets several characters and makes a friend of Jack, a briefly cross-dressing, goose-toting man with some fairly loose morals when it comes to stealing. Rapunzel and Jack save each other from some seedy characters before heading out of town on stolen horses.
Rapunzel (or Punzie as Jack sometimes calls her) is determined to save her mother from Mother Gothel's mines. With the help of Jack (and a little bit of magic) Rapunzel is able to get into the party Mother Gothel is hosting and save her mother and all the inhabitants that Mother Gothel had oppressed.
The book is a charming retelling of the fairy tale and the illustrations are terrific. Hale is able to use the illustrations to tell a fuller story. My favorite instance of this is when Rapunzel is escaping from her tree tower and the words say that she manages to gracefully escape but the pictures show her falling into the water around the base of the tree. In this way Hale is able to make the heroine both strong and funny. She's not perfect but learning and growing (without the help of Mother Gothel's magic).
 Cute graphic novel with a Mother Goose remix August 30, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
When Repunzel discovers the woman she has always called mother stole her away from her family as a child and is sucking the life out of the land, she knows that she must use all of her meager skills to return the land to its fertile origins. With the help of her new friend Jack and his crazy goose Goldy, Punzie finds an inner strength and a community ready to come together to take down the most evil witch of all.
This a cute story that mixes the Brothers Grimm with Mother Goose and throws in a twist of the Wild West. There is some really clever dialogue between Jack and Repuzel, but the plot falls just short of wonderful. The beginning is a little slow and the resolution stretches just a little too far to be satisfying. But if you like graphic novels and you love Shannon Hale's great sense of humor, you'll enjoy this read. As for Nathan Hale's illustrations, they are nice without being overly remarkable.
Another clever retelling of a fairy Tale that is sure delight young readers and keep reluctant readers going on the literary trail.
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