{"id":315,"date":"2009-01-09T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T22:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/review-of-rapunzels-revenge-by-shannon-and-dean-hale\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:23:00","slug":"review-of-rapunzels-revenge-by-shannon-and-dean-hale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Review of Rapunzel’s Revenge, by Shannon and Dean Hale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rapunzel’s Revenge<\/em><\/p>\n

by Shannon and Dean Hale<\/p>\n

Illustrated by Nathan Hale<\/p>\n

Bloomsbury, 2008.\u00a0 144 pages.<\/p>\n

Starred Review.<\/p>\n

Sonderbooks Stand-out 2009: #2, Teen Graphic Novels<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.shannonhale.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.spacestationnathan.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bloomsburyusa.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I am a huge Shannon Hale fan.\u00a0 So though I normally would not have rushed to buy a graphic novel, when I heard that she had written one with her husband (The artist, though having the same last name, is not related.), I simply had to buy it.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t up there in the best-thing-I’ve-ever-read territory like her novels, but all the same, this book is completely delightful.\u00a0 Though, come to think of it, it’s the best graphic novel I’ve ever read.\u00a0 (Don’t tell my son!)<\/p>\n

Rapunzel’s Revenge <\/em>tells the tale of Rapunzel, set in the old West.\u00a0 Rapunzel is no wimpy princess, waiting for a prince to set her free.\u00a0 When she learns at twelve years old what “Mother Gothel” has done to her real mother, and how she terrorizes the countryside, Rapunzel confronts her.\u00a0 She’s promptly placed in a\u00a0tower\u00a0made from a giant tree that Mother Gothel made with her growth magic.\u00a0 The same magic\u00a0begins to\u00a0affect Rapunzel’s hair.<\/p>\n

There are some fun things in the illustrations.\u00a0 I love the three books Rapunzel has in the tower:\u00a0 Girls Who Get Saved and the Princes Who Save Them, How to Make a Twig Bonnet,<\/em> and There’s Always Bird Watching.<\/em><\/p>\n

With nothing to do in the tower, she practices her lasso skills by using her ridiculously long hair, braided into rope.<\/p>\n

Finally, after she turns sixteen, her hair is long enough for her to use it to escape her prison.\u00a0 It’s after her escape that she sees a traveling adventurer who heard about the beautiful maiden in a tower.\u00a0 She points him to the tower and tells him the maiden is slightly deaf, so he should be sure to yell as loud as he can.<\/p>\n

On the way back to Gothel’s villa to rescue her mother, Rapunzel becomes\u00a0a vigilante, helping people with her amazing lasso of hair.\u00a0 She falls in with a rogue named Jack who’s been having some trouble with giants.\u00a0\u00a0Rapunzel convinces Jack to help her\u00a0rescue\u00a0her mother and bring justice to the countryside, which has been sucked dry by Gothel’s magic.<\/p>\n

Here’s a girl who doesn’t need saving!\u00a0 This imaginative adventure has a heroine you can cheer for.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n

www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/rapunzels_revenge.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale Illustrated by Nathan Hale Bloomsbury, 2008.\u00a0 144 pages. Starred Review. Sonderbooks Stand-out 2009: #2, Teen Graphic Novels http:\/\/www.shannonhale.com\/ http:\/\/www.spacestationnathan.com\/ http:\/\/www.bloomsburyusa.com\/ I am a huge Shannon Hale fan.\u00a0 So though I normally would not have rushed to buy a graphic novel, when I heard that she had written one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,9,37,31,42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fantasy","category-graphic-novel","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}