Rumpelstiltskin
Richly hued oil paintings complement a story simply and gracefully told. "Children...love the story for its mystery, and its familiarity. Adults will find that, like most classic fairy tales, this one rewards periodic rethinking." --New York Times Book Review "Zelinsky's smooth retelling and...
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Richly hued oil paintings complement a story simply and gracefully told. "Children...love the story for its mystery, and its familiarity. Adults will find that, like most classic fairy tales, this one rewards periodic rethinking." --New York Times Book Review "Zelinsky's smooth retelling and glowing pictures cast the story in a new and beautiful light." -- School Library Journal
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140558647 (0140558640)
Publish date: September 1st 1996
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
European Literature,
Art,
Fairy Tales,
Picture Books,
German Literature,
Folklore,
Folk Tales
Series: Well-Loved Tales
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...
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