Books with title Rumpelstiltskin

This classic fairy tale is a cautionary story about making promises you don’t want to keep. A miller’s daughter must spin straw into gold for the king. She despairs, but an ugly little man appears who makes a deal with her. He will spin the straw into gold for her, for a price. A year later, the miller’s daughter is now the queen, and the little man returns for his price: her firstborn child. Will the queen guess the man’s name and win her daughter back, or will she have to pay a terrible price for the straw spun into gold? This charming fairy tale is beautifully illustrated to delight the young at heart of all ages.

The Caramel Tree Readers Level 2 is a delicious series of leveled readers for children ages 5 to 7. It offers a range of classic fairy tale adaptations and stories with 500 to 700 words. Each book in this set features a few sentences per page that are accompanied by detailed illustrations. Given the familiar contexts, some of the fairy tales have been reworked or adapted so that students are always surprised and eager to read all the way to the unexpected endings. Rumpelstiltskin enjoys causing chaos and playing tricks on the villagers but they cannot stop him because they do not know his name. One day, Rumplestiltskin goes too far when he cuts off Rapunzel’s long golden hair. Oh, how can he be stopped?

Have you ever wondered just what was going on when that odd little man with the long name stepped up and volunteered to spin straw into gold for the miller’s daughter? If you stop and think about it, there are some very peculiar and rather hard-to-explain components to the story. Vivian Vande Velde has wondered too, and she’s come up with these six alternative versions of the old legend. A bevy of miller’s daughters confront their perilous situation in very different ways — sometimes comic, sometimes scary. Most of the time, it’s the daughter who gets off safely, but sometimes, amazingly, Rumpelstiltskin himself wins the day. And in one tale, it is the king who cleverly escapes a quite unexpected fate.

A master illustrator helps sets the record straight in this picture book telling the other side of the Rumpelstilskin story For years, people have had the wrong idea about that strange looking little man Rumpelstiltskin from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. You know, the one where a beautiful miller's daughter is locked up in a tower spinning gold to win the approval of the King? But do they know that in fact this mischievous little imp wasn’t quite as mean as he was made out to be?

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