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Rapunzel (Caldecott Honor Book)
Undoubtedly, Paul O. Zelinsky, one of the most original and gifted children's book illustrators, has once again brought forth a unique vision for an age-old tale, showcasing his unmatched emotional authority, control of space, and narrative capability. Few artists today can rival the level at which his paintings tell a story and exert their hold.
Zelinsky's retelling of Rapunzel reaches beyond the Grimms' version to a late-seventeenth-century French tale by Mlle. la Force, which was based on the Neapolitan story Petrosinella, a popular collection at the time. The artist understands the story's fundamentals to be about possessiveness, confinement, and separation, rather than punishment and deprivation. Consequently, the tower the sorceress gives Rapunzel is not a desolate, barren structure of denial, but one of esoteric beauty on the outside and physical luxury within.
The world the artist creates through the elements in his paintings - the palette, control of light, landscape, characters, architecture, interiors, and 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 beginning of their adulthood.
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, his art captivates us with its mastery of storytelling and its ability to transcend the boundaries of the tale itself.
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