Record Added: 10/8/2009 Topic Fairytales, Myths, Folklo Publisher Dutton Publishers ISBN 0525442650 Year 1986 Age 4-8 Pages 40 Description beautiful, printed, dustco
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This Rumpelstiltskin is not scary or horrid, but rather mischievous and weird. When the young queen finally guesses his name, and thus is able to keep her baby, he flies off on his huge cooking spoon (with a pout), true to the Grimms's 1819 version of the story. The little man Rumplestiltskin is by turns mysterious, comforting, devious, furious and pathetic.
And Zelinsky shows dramatically the love that the miller's daughter has for her child, and the terror she feels when she realizes she may have to give him up. Rumplestiltskin is a tour de force by an immensely talented artist. Zelinsky is that rare practitioner who can create sophisticated work that adults will marvel at, and that children will joyfully embrace.
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