| Title | : | Rumpel-stiltskin |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Format Type | : | Kindle , Hardcover , Paperback , Audiobook & More |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1968 |
Rumpel-stiltskin Reviews
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I loved these books ever since I was in Grade 2! RUMPELSTILTSKIN does have a few creepy illustrations, but overall, a great fairy tale for young kids!
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I loved this book as a child, it was so compelling, the impossible challenges, the scary man, the beautiful artwork and the mother's cleverness in finding out his name. I don't think I found this distressing as a child but I remember reading this to my son when my daughter was a baby, and I found the illustrations of Rumplestiltskin trying to take a baby girl too much! It's a great story for children who like a little bit of scariness. This illustrator is so talented and very good at expressions.
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I can remember owning this book and also telling this story to my children. They don't tell stories like this anymore. A classic children's story.
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A poor nervous father bungles in front of the king bragging about his daughter's abilities to spin straw into gold. If she cannot, she will die! But low and behold, a little man shows up to help her out and does it simply for the necklace she is wearing. I suppose if you can already spin straw into gold, your needs are few? But, the king is greedy and one time is not enough, he goes for a second and a third night.
On the third night the girl has run out of things to offer the little man and he asks a very high price, her first child! (Think Rapunzel!) The girl is desperate, death or the promise of some future child who may never come? What would you do?
She marries the king (who apparently is now satisfied with his gold) and has a child and guess who shows up?! You didn't expect him to forget, did you?! But he gives her a chance. If she can come up with his name in three days, he will relinquish his claim on the child. Great story! -
Once upon a time (perhaps the best opening line since 'In the beginning'!) there was a poor miller who had one beautiful daughter. One day the King sent for the miller and when he stood in front of His Majesty the miller said the first silly thing that came into his head, 'My daughter can spin straw into gold.'
The king told the miller that his daughter must be very clever and commanded him to bring her to him the following day so that he could observe this feat. The miller duly did so and the king took the young girl into a room that was filled with straw together with a spindle, a stool and some reels.
The king ordered the girl to set to work and told her that if in the morning she had not turned straw into gold she would have to die. Left alone in the locked room, the poor girl was at her wit's end for she had no idea how to achieve that objective. She put her head in her hands and cried.
Then suddenly the door burst open and a little man entered. He said 'Good evening' and then asked why the girl was crying. She explained and to her surprise the little man said that he knew how to spin straw into gold and asked her what she would give him if he did it for her. 'My necklace,' she said. So the little man set to and produced the gold and then disappeared out of the door.
The following morning the king arrived and was delighted, so much so that he took the young girl to a second room full of straw and told her to repeat the process. Once more the girl began to cry when the king departed but once more the little man arrived, asked what he could have and being told her ring, he duly produced the gold again.
At sunrise the king arrived again and was again delighted and told the young girl that if she could do this just once more she would be his queen. She was crying again when the little man arrived later and he asked what he could have if he were to produce gold once more. The young girl told him that she had nothing left so he asked if he could have her first child if she became queen and the girl complied with his request. Once more the gold was produced.
The following morning the king was so pleased that he was quite happy to marry the beautiful young girl and make her his queen. And they were very happy living in the royal castle and after a year they had a lovely little baby boy.
A few days later the little man appeared in the queen's bedroom and demanded his reward but the queen clutched her little baby to her chest and refused; she did offer him all the riches in her kingdom but she wanted to keep her baby. The little man was not receptive to the idea as he wanted a child so he told her that if she could guess his name within three days he would release her from her promise.
The queen had no idea what name to guess so she arranged for a messenger to go around and collect all the boy's names he could and she would try them on the little man. This happened twice but without success, despite the queen reading a long list of names out to her visitor. The queen was in despair.
It was late on the third day when the messenger returned but he had no new names. But on his travels he had come across a little house in the forest and ...
Well, suffice it to say, when the little man returned the queen shouted 'Rumpelstiltskin'. The little man was furious, stamped his foot and left the room, never to be seen again. The king, queen and their son lived happily ever after.
Wonderful story and beautifully illustrated. -
I read this when we were small, the little hardback was enjoyable and well illustrated. This one was seen as a tale for girls, who were given stories about princesses and sleeping beauties. In general boys were clearly expected to go out and have adventures. Girls were not, or they met savage beasts in the forest. This one shows a woman locked indoors doing women's work of spinning.
I think it's important to tell the old fairytales to children as otherwise they won't know the stories in today's jumble of other entertainments and games.
This is an unbiased review. -
This has been the first of these fairy tales where I didn’t feel as though the adaptation was missing anything. It wasn’t too bad, but I’ve also read better.
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My all time favourite fairytale. I always felt sorry for old Rumpel.
The poor miller, left his daughter in the sh** when he told the King she could spin gold. The King was a greedy, dirty old man.
And the daughter made a promise she couldn't keep. Rumpelstiltskin was just doing an honest day's work and trying to help the poor girl out. He had to turn up three times, to do her work for her and help her become queen! Then when she finally finds out his name, she mocks him by pretending to not know it! What does he do? He keeps his word and leaves. How he's made out to be the bad guy in this story, I don't know.
Love you Rumpel! Always will. -
A fairytale that I remember reading as a little girl. Having to revisit it for a module on my course has filled me with nostalgia, and Rumplestiltskin remains to be a fairytale I love and still enjoy.
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Excellent childhood classic
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Although this is from 1968, from the halcyon era of Ladybird books, this is a 'level 2' reading level which means I didn't get stuck and none of the words were too tricky ;) but also means that the text is pretty brief. This took hardly 5 minutes to read, compared to e.g. The Pilgrim Fathers or King John & The Magna Carta which are quite a length for a Ladybird book. Brevity aside, the Brothers Grimm must've been on serious drugs when they dreamed up this one. Why the poor miller would suddenly blurt out to the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold when she plainly can't has no explanation, and why the king would threaten her with death then marriage for failing to comply is similarly ridiculous. I realise it's a fairytale, but it really is quite silly indeed. 3/5
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A tale about being greedy and tricking others. It is a classic's children tale with a lovely ending! I love it! I love the illustrations even more and that's why I gave it 5⭐️
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A delightful book for youngish children (4 - 6 years old). Simple, just long enough to keep their attention.
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Well, it's about a poor, and of course, beautiful miller's daughter, who is held in the castle of the king who demands her to spin a certain amount of straw into gold. The girl has no knowledge whatsoever on how to do this, and the King told her if she failed to do as she was told she would die. Weeping terribly a little man comes to her telling her he will spin the straw into gold in exchange for something. She gives him her ring.The little man spins the straw into gold. Then, the king makes her spin it a second time, in exchange, the girl gives the man her necklace. However it happens a third time, and the girl runs out of items. The little man makes her promise she will give him her first child. She agrees, thinking that will never happen, and becomes the king's wife. She brings a boy in the world, and the little man shows up demanding the child. She weeps and out of pity the little man tells her he will give her three days to guess his name, and if she does, she can keep to kid. Well, two days go by and no luck with names. Then a servant of hers discovers the man's name is RUMPELTSTILKSKIN. She tells the little man and she is correct, and in rage he flees. But in this version, the little man flies off on a giant cooking spoon. In the real version he rips himself apart. This is a wonderful tale for children. Read it. It's great.
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If other people have been reviewing the Ladybird Well-Loved Tales editions of this book, written by Vera Southgate and with illustrations by Eric Winter, I am not sure why they are not giving it five stars. How can anyone not give it five stars with such delightful illustrations? I loved it as a child, and I still love it now. It was always such thrill and a satisfaction to get to that final picture of Rumpelstilskin stamping his foot through the floor.
Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales of this vintage are the books to go for when it comes to fairy tales, both beautifully written and with such high-quality and satisfying illustrations which take you into another world, so unlike the simple and crude modern cartoon caricatures you get today which are so bland and uninspiring in comparison to these old classics. Rumpelstiltskin was always one of my favourites from the whole of this series. -
Despite remembering hardly a thing about this tale now, I think rating it four stars equates to how much I enjoyed this story when I read it several times as a child, though I may be underrating it.
I recognised the cover immediately.
Reckon 1984 would be the last time I read it, but it's hard to be accurate all these years on.
Recommended to anyone aged in single figures or for grown-ups feeling nostalgic. -
Is it weird that I felt a little sorry for Rumpel-stiltskin, the poor man got short-changed. I'm not saying he should have taken the child. I just think the father in the beginning is to blame. He should have been punished for telling the King a false hood and nearly getting his daughter killed.
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The stories that I read as a child and oh did I love them but now I am thinking "what in the world." That is why I think sometimes it is safer not re-reading.
Anyways from a girl, I always like stories of set in a faraway castle, a damsel is in trouble and someone helping her. -
I never realised this as a child but let me get this straight. The King imprisons a girl, makes her spin straw into gold or he'll kill her and she marries him??????? Wow, just wow.
I loved this book as a child but now??? Yeah, I have no words. -
Rumpelstiltskin was always one of my most favourite stories when I was younger! Many memories of my mum reading it to me, complete with voices :D
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He's such a little shit, Rumpelstiltskin.
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I remember reading this when I was young. Just read it with Lauren and Jackson. The only part that is weird is the King went from threatening to kill the Miller's daughter to offering to marry her!
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Rediscovering these tales with my young niece reading them aloud at bedtime with her.
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A childhood book where the girl is basically taken hostage and blackmailed. Obviously, not one of my favorites.
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Para leerle a los niños está súper bello
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A classic.
As a child I was terrified of this book but still enjoyed hearing the story
