Golden

Rock Chalk Jayhawk! Today is a great day to be a Kansan as the KU Jayhawks won the National Championship last night. With the game going into the overtime, we all stayed up too late watching the ending, so everyone is dragging today. But it is still exciting! Go Jayhawks!

I love fairy tale books. Who knew? I sure didn’t know that I did, but I really enjoyed reading Beastly by Alex Flinn and I just finished Golden: A Retelling of “Repunzel” by Cameron Dokey. And I thought it was a fun read also.

In Golden, Rapunzel’s mother makes a deal with a sorceress that if she does not love the baby just as she appears, she would have to give the baby to the sorceress to raise. Rapunzel is born with no hair and with no hope of ever having any and her mother who is beautiful is horrified and thinks she is horrific looking so she gives her to the sorceress. However, the sorceress has an alternative reason for wanting Rapunzel as her own.

Rapunzel is raised by the sorceress and she has a very happy and content life until they are forced from their home and the sorceress tells Rapunzel that she had another daughter who has been cursed by an evil wizard and locked in a tower. She hopes that Rapunzel can figure out a way to break the curse and free her daughter. What happens is an interesting twist on an old fairy tale. And the fun twist at the end is how Rapunzel gets her long beautiful hair!