This book is a great re-telling of the very popular fairy tale, Rapunzel. Told in the graphic style, the tale begins with a husband and wife who wish more than anything to have a child. When they are finally granted their wish, the evil witch next door takes their young daughter and locks her away in a tower, never to know her real family. One day Rapunzel meets and falls in love with a young prince who they witch soon blinds. After being vanquished from the tower herself, Rapunzel moves to the forest, and begins her new life there where she soon has everything she’s dreamed of, including her prince.
After reading this story with my students, I would have them add on to the ending of the story. I would have them write about what kind of life Rapunzel and her family had from then on, and whether they stayed in the forest, went back to the prince’s kingdom, etc. Since this is a graphic novel, I would talk about how the story is composed of panels, and get the students to illustrate their ending of the story with their own panel drawing.
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