One of the most original and gifted of children\'s book illustrators has once again brought forth a unique vision for an age-old tale.
Zelinsky\'s work thrillingly shows us the events of the story while guiding us beyond them to the truths that have made it endure..
As ever, and yet always somehow in newly arresting fashion, Paul O.
And the world the artist creates through the elements in his paintings the palette, control of light, landscape, characters, architecture, interiors, costumes speaks to us not of an ugly witch who cruelly imprisons a beautiful young girl, but of a mother figure who powerfully resists her child\'s inevitable growth, and of a young woman and man who must struggle in the wilderness for the self-reliance that is the true beginningof their adulthood.
Thus the tower the sorceress gives Rapunzel here is not a desolate, barren structure of denial but one of esoteric beauty on the outside and physical luxury within.
The artist understands the story\'s fundamentals to be about possessiveness, confinement, and separation, rather than about punishment and deprivation. la Force, who based hers on the Neapolitan tale Petrosinella in a collection popular at the time.
Zelinsky\'s retelling of Rapunzel reaches back beyond the Grimms to a late-seventeenth-century French tale by Mlle.
Few artists at work today can touch the level at which his paintings tell a story and exert their hold.
Zelinsky has once again with unmatched emotional authority, control of space, and narrativecapability brought forth a unique vision for an age-old tale.
Surely among the most original and gifted of children\'s book illustrators, Paul O. 1998 Caldecott Award.
Full color. la Force, where a mother powerfully resists her child\'s inevitable growth.
Zelinsky\'s retelling of Rapunzel captures the possessiveness, confinement, and separation of a late 17th-century French tale by Mlle.
One of the most original and gifted of children\'s book illustrators has once again brought forth a unique vision for an age-old tale
