![]() Instantly the sorceress understood what Rapunzel did not. Grimm Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator) Call Number: Y 398 R Publication Date: 2001 A lovely girl is raised by a witch and rescued by a handsome prince. It is growing so tight around my waist, it doesn't want to fit me anymore." Rapunzel by Barbara Rogasky Jacob Grimm Wilhelm K. One day when the sorceress entered the tower, Rapunzel said, "If you please, Stepmother, help me with my dress. In Zelinsky's retelling, there is no escape plan, and he mentions that Rapunzel and the prince hold a marriage ceremony for themselves on the first night the prince visits. ![]() I thought I had given you all your heart could desire. "Wicked, ungrateful child! I thought I had hidden you from all the world. "Oh, wretched girl!" The witch flew into a rage. "Mother Gothel," she said, "how is it that it takes you so long to climb up here when the king's son does it so fast?" ![]() ![]() But one day, when Rapunzel had watched the witch make her clumsy climb to the tower room, the girl forgot her secret. In Rogasky's telling, Rapunzel is weaving a ladder from pieces of silk the prince brings her, so they can escape together:Īfter some time, the ladder was almost finished, and Mother Gothel still knew nothing. The main difference between them is the way in which the witch (sorceress, in Zelinsky's version) finds out about the prince. ![]() Much of the story is the same in both books, including the difficult parts: the parents losing their child to the witch Rapunzel being locked in the tower, the prince's fall and blinding after the witch catches him. ![]()
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