With the wind in his hair, and blowing his hooter,
Along came the prince on the back of a scooter.
" Rapunzel, Rapunzel, please let down your hair!"
Called the prince from down on the bottom stair...
But Rapunzel just sat -
As still as a wall;
She didn' t think much of the prince at all.

Rapunzel sits on the sixteenth floor of an inner city block, bored, dreaming and looking out at the rain. No one can rouse her from her apathy, not the milkman or the postman or the baker or her aunt - or even the prince. But when at last a letter is delivered, it contains news that has Rapunzel on her feet again. She has a new job at the library! And suddenly her life is busy, sparkling, exciting and stimulating. " For despite her long hair and her ravishing looks, she loved nothing better than reading good books!"

This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2015 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Rebecca Ashdown is a children's illustrator and writer who lives in West Sussex. As well as writing and illustrating The Whopper for Templar, she has also illustrated Bob and Flo; How the Library (not he Prince) saved Rupunzel; Glump and the Peeble (Frances Lincoln); Odd Socks Anderson Press; Zoo Boy (Fiction - Faber & Faber) WENDY MEDDOUR has been lecturing and teaching at Oxford University for the last eight years, but is now writing full-time as well as painting and illustrating. She is married to an Algerian mathematician and lives in Wiltshire. Her other title in the Cinammon Grove series is The Hen in the Wardrobe.