One morning, Rapunzel saw a breathtaking sight: a beautiful kingdom with a castle sitting high above. Instead of happily ever after, “they stepped out together into the bright morning sunshine.” Ages 3–6. Author: Lynn Roberts-Maloney Illustrator: David Roberts Publisher: Pavilion In this collection of three retold fairy tales, David Roberts and his sister Lynn envisage some rather different settings and outcomes for three heroines - Cinderella, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty - complete with to-die-for period outfits, drawn with precise and fashion. Days passed, and Rapunzel and Flynn managed to escape their pursuers. As the title of David Roberts riotously gloriously illustrated book (written by Lynn Roberts-Maloney) suggests they can also be thought of as simply being. Roberts-Maloney’s tales evolve from a meek, sweet Cinderella story that is essentially unchanged except for its setting, to a pale Sleeping Beauty woken by a heroic brown-skinned girl named Zoe. Illustration spreads are chock-full of period-specific details-ape-hanger bicycles, record players, and flapper frocks-and visual gags, such as the greenish countenance of a hungover stepsister after Cinderella’s ball, and the stitched-together towels that encompass Rapunzel’s just-washed locks. Illustrator Roberts collaborates with his sister, Roberts-Maloney, on a trio of traditional fairy tales transposed to 20th-century settings: Cinderella is a 1920s waif with a copy of Vogue tucked in her apron pocket, Rapunzel pines for a local rock star in a 1970s tower block of apartments, and Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger on a record player needle in the 1950s and wakes up 1,000 years in the future.
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