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Storace, Patricia.
SUGAR CANE : A CARIBBEAN RAPUNZEL
New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 2007.
IL 3-6, RL 4.6
ISBN 0786807911
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 In this retelling of the story of Rapunzel, we meet a young fisherman and his pregnant wife.  She is craving some sugar cane and begs her husband to get her some.  When he finds a sugar cane patch, he helps himself without thinking about who it may belong to.  Well, he should have stopped to think about it.  The sugar cane patch belongs to a sorceress and she isn't too happy about being robbed.  On the baby's first birthday, Madame Fate claims the baby as her own and locks her away in a tower.
SUBJECTS:     Folklore -- Caribbean Area.

 
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