“You live in a tower without a stair,
Sugar Cane, Sugar Cane, let down your hair.”

Stolen away from her parents on her first birthday by island sorceress, Madame Fate, beautiful Sugar Cane grows up in a tower overlooking the sea. With only a pet green monkey named Callaloo for company, Sugar Cane is lonely -- her sole consolation is her love of music. Often she stands at her window and sings, imagining that the echo of her voice is someone answering her. Then one night, someone does hear her song. Could this young man with a gift for music break the spell of Madame Fate and help Sugar Cane set herself free?

Patricia Storace’s lyrical and seamless retelling of the Rapunzel tale in a Caribbean setting is perfectly matched with Raúl Colón’s lush, vibrant illustrations. An unforgettable feast for the senses.

Patricia Storace is an award-winning poet and essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Review of Books and Condé Nast Traveler. Dinner with Persephone, her travel memoir about Greece, was a New York Times Notable Book. Sugar Cane is her first book for children. 

Raúl Colón has illustrated more than twenty-five books for children, including What is Goodbye? by Nikki Grimes. He has won a Pura Belpré Award for Illustration and has been awarded a Silver and Gold medal from the Society of Illustrators. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Time magazine, and The New Yorker. Mr. Colón lives and works in New York.