by Edith Tarcov, Edward Gorey
Another excellent book by Paul O. Zelinsky. The story is a classic and the illustrations are enchanting. My boys loved it!
Wonderful adaption of the Grimm fairytale, it has beautiful artwork and an interesting storyline to keep readers interested and wanting to turn the page.
Back in those school days, years ago, we received books from school library when I was an absolute sucker for fairy-tales. But I guess, I am still the same as I still going back to this story every time that I can. Read it first time then and never returned the book and faked lost at school. Fined f...
Rumpelstiltskin is for me one of the more unsettling fairy tales. And it's strange because on the surface it's not overtly violent or gruesome like so many of the tales. What gets me is that every single man in the story treats the unnamed miller's daughter like complete garbage. Her father uses ...
Father brings daughter to palace with the wild claim that she can spin straw into gold. A strange little man bargains with her twice to make it happen. The king is so pleased, he tells her that if she can do it a third time he'll take her as his wife. The little man offers to help, but demands the p...
Enjoyed this as a child, but rather scared by him.
Read it as a kid in the early 1990s in different editions...
We had this book from the school book order when I was a kid. Gorey's illustrations compelled and repelled me at the same time. I remember being disturbed by how he did the noses and round faces to make them purposefully not pretty, even when they were supposed to be (the miller's daughter). I had t...
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