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Grade 1, Escuela Campo Alegre, Caracas, Venezuela

by Paul O. Zelinsky
Retold by 1st Grade, Ms. Mariana Morrill

There once was a woman and a man that lived next to a witch. They were very happy. The lady saw rapunzel in the witch’s garden and she really wanted to eat it. When she ate it, she liked it.

The man went to get her more, and more, and more rapunzel until the witch caught him. Then she said, “If you give me your first baby I will give you all the rapunzel you can eat!” The baby was born and they had to take her to the witch.

The witch put the baby in a tower and named her Rapunzel. A big, handsome prince came and heard a voice singing. He looked and looked for doors and windows but he couldn’t find any. The next day he heard the witch say, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair.”

The next day the prince rode his horse and went to the tower and said, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.” He went up into the tower on her hair and asked her if she would marry him. Rapunzel said yes.

The witch came to the tower and Rapunzel told her that her dress was too tight. That’s when she told the witch that she and the prince were married. To punish her, the witch cut her hair off. The witch then sent her to the forest to live forever. When the prince came she tricked him by hanging Rapunzel’s hair out of the tower window.

When the prince climbed the hair, he found only the witch in the tower. He got scared and fell down and was blinded. He went to the forest because he heard the singing. There he found Rapunzel in the middle of the forest.

When Rapunzel saw him she cried and her tears made him see again. Then they moved to the castle and lived happily ever after.