HOW THE LIBRARY (NOT THE PRINCE) SAVED RAPUNZEL

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Take a popular fairy tale, modernizeit and make the princess a sassy lass who refuses to let her hair down, and youhave a nifty fairy-tale twist with a library message.

“On the sixteenth floor of a talltower block / sat Rapunzel, quite idle, whilst growing her locks.” The milkmancalls up, “The lift is not working, the stairs are too steep / my asthma is badand my heart is too weak.” But Rapunzel refuses to let down her hair for him orthe postman, the baker, her aunt and even the prince! She just sits passively,so each visitor goes away. Worried that they are neglecting her due to theirreluctance to climb 15 flights of stairs, the troupe gathers together andsoldiers up to the 16th floor to cook Rapunzel supper and deliver a letter.“Rapunzel leapt up and shouted with glee: / ‘I’ve got a new job at the library!’” So begins her love affair with library books and the discovery that “there’smore to life than growing your hair!” (The question of how she gathered thewherewithal to apply for the job is not addressed.) The bouncy illustrationsmatch the whimsy. Rapunzel’s hair is wildly curly and red; the prince arriveson a scooter wearing a helmet, black goatee and shades; the cast is multiethnic.The rhymes give lilt to the tale. (Two British terms, “lift” and “spanner,” areused for elevator and wrench, but this doesn’t get in the way of the fun.)

There’s plenty of hair flair and fun,if not quite so much logic. (Picture book. 5-8)

Pub Date:?Dec. 1st, 2014ISBN:?978-1-84780-432-7Page count:?32ppPublisher:?Frances LincolnReview Posted Online: Oct.?22nd,?2014Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov.?1st,?2014



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Rare Shakespeare Folio Found in French Library

A rare copy of Shakespeare's First Folio -- the first compilation of his plays -- has been discovered in a small French town after laying unrecognized for more than two centuries.

Remy Cordonnier, a librarian in the northern town of Saint-Omer, made the rare find as he was selecting books for an upcoming exhibition on historical links between the region and England.

The First Folio was originally published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death. Only about 230 copies are still in existence.

Without the First Folio edition, much of Shakespeare's work, including "Julius Caesar," "As You Like It," "Twelfth Night and Macbeth," might have been lost to the world. They were among 18 of his plays that remained unpublished at the time of his death in 1616.

Photo provided by VisitBritain shows a monument to William Shakespeare at Westminster Abbey in London. /AP

The newly discovered copy was authenticated last Saturday by Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen of the University of Nevada in the United States.

The First Folio is one of the world's most valuable books in the English language. The edition in Saint-Omer is only the second known copy in France.

A First Folio edition fetched more than $4.4 million at auction in London in 2006 and another sold for $5.6 million in New York in 2001.

The library in Saint-Omer says it has no plans to sell the discovery, but it will display it in its forthcoming exhibition of rare books by English authors.

Some information in this report was provided by AFP.

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