Although the stories are rather a bit much to read all at once, separately they are both clever innovations on the traditional tale and useful instructionally in analyzing motivation and character. Rumpelstiltskin, the main character is a neighbor of the miller and his daughter, an unpleasant witch-like woman who wants a daughter of her own to raise (in a locked tower, as it turns out). The father solves the gold-spinning problem himself in one story, and the exemplary king rids himself of a greedy, conniving miller’s daughter in another. The following three stories have human characters taking on the role of Rumpelstiltskin within the story structure. In the first, Rumpelstiltskin is a mean troll who wants to eat a baby for lunch in the second, he is a helpful, gentle elf who eventually rescues the miller’s daughter and her baby from an uncaring king and in the third, Rumplestiltskin is a domovoi, a furry Russian creature who lives under the floorboards of the castle, simply trying to keep all the humans happy. The first three stories deal with the motivation of the Rumpelstiltskin character. Each of her short stories then addresses one of these problems in various clever ways. She begins in an introduction by examining the logical fallacies inherent in the traditional versions of “Rumpelstiltskin,” detailed in a slightly sarcastic style that will appeal to junior-high students. 1366, etc.) extends this popular subgenre into the upper-elementary through junior-high level, with her collection of six short stories on a Rumpelstiltskin theme. Urn:oclc:864317279 Scandate 20100225074006 Scanner making many books there is no end, and of making many fairy tales with alternate settings, characters, or perspectives there clearly is no end in sight. OL14849924W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 87.16 Pages 136 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:129988895X Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:34:29 Boxid IA114114 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor
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