Rapunzel has that long, flower child straight hair that was so popular in the 1970s, spins David Bowie’s iconic Aladdin Sane album on her turntable and has Saturday Night Fever, Abba, and Elton John posters on her wall. Cinderella’s evil stepmother and stepsisters have cloches and Louise Brooks-like bobbed hair the dressing gowns are fabulously glamourous and the headdresses are incredible. The storytelling incorporates moments from each time frame, and the art – THE ART! – is filled with nods to each decade. Each is set in a different 20th century (give or take…): Cinderella takes place in the Roaring ’20s, Rapunzel, in the 1970s, and Sleeping Beauty, in the 1950s and beyond. Illustrator siblings David Roberts and Lynn Roberts-Maloney have come together to put a modern, vintage spin on three classics fairy tales: Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. Delightfully Different Fairy Tales, by David Roberts & Lynn Roberts-Maloney, (Oct.
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