A graphic novel-beautifully illustrated, well-written but with all the silliness of a comic book. If you don't expect anything more, you will enjoy it. 
 My daughter is a Shannon Hale fan and when she saw it in my hands, she definitely expressed a desire to read it. And I really have to work with this child on pleasure-reading. 
 It would be a good book for the classroom reluctant reader. Rapunzel is a great female protagonist.