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Title: Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter by Diane Stanley ISBN: 0-06-441095-1 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: FANTASTIC!!!
Comment: I *love* this book! And so does my 3 year old daughter. The artwork is beautiful and so wonderful to look at. The story is *awesome* and just great for little girls [and boys!].
The author has a superb wit and a gift for storytelling. This has quickly become one of our very favorites and my daughter spends lots of time now pretending to be "Rumplestiltskin's Daughter" [who also had a name!]. I'm very happy with the impact this tale has had on her sense of what it is to be a woman.
This tale encourages girls to be clever and self sufficient without being tedious or overbearingly feminist. [And without being anti-male]. I can't recommend this book highly enough!
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful!
Comment: This book has a great message for young girls (and boys!), and the illustrations are very clever. I think I enjoy this book as much as my daughters do! It makes a great gift.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful story, stunning illustrations
Comment: Sometimes I run across a book that has such a well-crafted story and such exquisite illustrations that I just sit back and say, "Wow!" This book by Diane Stanley is one of those "wow" books. In this version of Rumpelstiltskin, the miller's daughter, Meredith, is not a brainless wench who jumps at the chance to marry the king. Rumpelstiltskin is not an evil child-snatching gnome. In fact, he's a sweet soul who only wants one thing in life -- a child to love and care for. No wonder Meredith decides to ditch the king and marry Rumpelstiltskin. Besides, she has a weakness for short men. Rumpelstiltskin and Meredith marry, work on their farm, and raise their daughter. Although the family could use Rumpelstiltskin's talents to become exceedingly rich, he only spins a small amount of gold to buy those things they can't make or grow themselves. The rest of the people in the kingdom are not so lucky. The greedy king has rooms full of gold while his subjects are penniless and starving. No wonder he needs a contingent of armed guards who have elevated teeth-gnashing and sword-clutching into an art form.
When Rumpelstiltskin's daughter is sixteen, her parents let her take the odd bit of gold into town to exchange it for coins to buy necessities. Eventually the old greedy king hears about this, kidnaps Rumpelstiltskin's daughter, and locks her in a tower filled with straw. "Rumpelstiltskin's daughter looked around. She saw a pile of straw the size of a bus. She saw a locked door and high windows. She gave a big sigh and began to think. She knew her father could get her out of this pickle. But she had heard stories about the king all her life. One room full of gold would never satisfy him. Her father would be stuck here, spinning, until there was not an iota of straw left in the kingdom. "After a while she climbed the pile of straw and thought some more. She thought about the poor farmers and about the hungry children with their thin faces and sad eyes. She put the two thoughts together and cooked up a plan. . ." Instead of spinning straw into gold, Rumpelstiltskin's daughter puts her plan (which Ms. Stanley develops so cleverly that you really should read it for yourself) into action and saves the kingdom by teaching the king some simple lessons in economics and public relations. By the end of the story, the king offers her his hand in marriage, which she wisely declines. "Why don't you make me prime minister, instead," she suggests.
The best word to describe the illustrations is sumptuous. Diane Stanley's greedy king with his elegantly styled coif bears a striking resemblance to Louis XIV, and the artwork mirrors the Sun King's opulence. The palace shines with gilded ceilings and elaborate tiled floors. On the palace walls hang masterpieces so famous that my six year old can recognize most of them --works by da Vinci, Van Gogh, Picasso.
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Title: Sleeping Ugly by Jane Yolen, Diane Stanley ISBN: 0698115600 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Giants Have Feelings, Too/Jack and the Beanstalk (Another Point of View) by Alvin, Dr. Grawowsky, Henry Buerchkholtz, Alvin Granowsky, Linda Dockey Graves ISBN: 0811466361 Publisher: Steck-Vaughn Company Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.20 |
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Title: The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas, Helen Oxenbury ISBN: 068981528X Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Saving Sweetness by Diane Stanley, G. Brian Karas ISBN: 0399226451 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Juv Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Raising Sweetness by Diane Stanley, G. Brian Karas ISBN: 0399232257 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Juv Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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