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The Rumpelstiltskin Problem

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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.

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Publisher: HarperCollins

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 28, 2000

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780547691664
  • Release date: August 28, 2000

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780547691664
  • File size: 82 KB
  • Release date: August 28, 2000

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
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Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.7
Lexile® Measure:890
Interest Level:4-8(MG)
Text Difficulty:4-5

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.

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