Rump
The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin
by Liesl Shurtliff
Should I read this?
appears in For 10 Year Olds, Fantasy, and Fiction.
This funny fractured fairy tale goes behind the scenes of Rumpelstiltskin. "A most magical feat," writes Newbery Honorwinner Kirby Larson, "Liesl Shurtliff spins words into gold." In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12yearold Rump is the butt of everyone's joke. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. R...
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appears in For 10 Year Olds, Fantasy, and Fiction.
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