A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which an enchantress shuts Rapunzel in a tower with no door, a king’s son climbs up by her long golden hair, and after a sad separation Rapunzel’s tears help him see again.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of Rapunzel: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
For years, a husband and wife longed for a baby. At last, one was coming! Out their back window, past a tall stone wall, lay a garden bright with flowers. Its owner was an enchantress, a woman with great magic.
The wife spied rampion, a leafy salad plant, growing there. She wanted it so much that she grew pale and sad. “If I can’t eat that rampion,” she told her husband, “I shall die!”
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