Each one is an oil painting in the style of Renaissance artists such as Pieter Brueghel and Hieronymus Bosch. The illustrations support the classic nature of the story. Zelinsky creates suspense and builds anticipation that will carry the reader all the way to the happy ending. It is a classic presentation of the simple archetypal characters, plot, setting and theme of good defeating evil that we associate with these stories. Taking elements from the different versions he has created a very satisfying, traditional fairy tale.
In “A Note on the Text” following the story Zelinsky addresses the history of the Grimm’s interaction with the story from 1808 when they first discovered it to their final publication in 1857. Paul Zelinsky’s retelling of this old fairy tale is based on the text of the Brothers Grimm version. What will happen? Will she find out the strange little man’s name and save her child? Your children will be glued to the story waiting to find out the answers to those questions in the classic retelling of the fairy tale, Rumpelstiltkin. If she is unsuccessful she will lose her son. When the little man appears to claim the child as promised the queen pleads with him so he gives her three days to guess his name. The stranger helps her and the girl marries the king and is happy until her first son is born. Seeing no way out of her predicament the young woman accepts. The third night she has nothing to give, the little man asks for her first born child. The first night it is her necklace, the second night it is her ring. Suddenly a strange little man appears and tells her he will help in exchange for a price.
ISBN: 9780525442653.Ī beautiful young girl finds herself confined to a room full of straw with orders from the king to transform all of it into gold or she will die.
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