![]() ![]() Zelinsky illustrations in my head, and the voice from the "Reading Rainbow" segment in my head whenever he came to mind. Rumpelstiltskin always seemed creepy and mysterious to me. ![]() I don't know if it's the Ivan of 2013, but it's at least the Wonder. He spends a lot of time in the book feeling sorry for himself, but he learns along the way that a person creates their own fate, and if they don't want to be defined by a label, then they don't have to be. ![]() He believes he's destined to live a crappy life. The bigger question that it tackles is, Do the labels that a person has placed on them (or that they have placed on themselves) determine their fate? Can they break free from these labels? Rump is a character that kids can relate to. I actually believed the Rumpelstiltskin story for the first time. ![]() What does this crazy goblin-like man want with a baby? This book asks and answers all of my questions in a very satisfying way. Why did the father tell the king that his daughter could spin straw into gold when she obviously couldn't? Why was the king so greedy those three nights that he thought the future queen was spinning, and then just content for the rest of his life with the gold that was spun during those three nights? Wouldn't he ask his wife to start spinning again at some point? Rumpelstiltskin wouldn't be around to help, then. Like every time I've ever read or heard this story, I was flooded with questions. I read a Rumpelstiltskin picture book to the third graders last month. ![]()
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