Picture #13 Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter



Author: Diane Stanley

Title: Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter

Illustrator: Diane Stanley

Readability: 5.5

Genre: Picture Book

Subgenre: Fantasy

Theme: Do not be greedy ( money and treasure wise) and always share and care about others.

Character: Hope, Rumpelstiltskin, Meredith, The King, The townspeople, guards, and the grannies.

Award(s) date of publication: 1997

Publisher: Morrow Junior Books

ISBN: 0-688-14327-X

Summary:

This is a funny fantasy story from the old traditional story Rumpelstiltskin’s. It follows the same plot about the Miller who told the king he had a daughter that could spin straw into gold and Rumpelstiltskin would come and spin the gold for her but in this story instead of marrying the King she married him. Rumpelstiltskin takes the straw and builds a gold ladder and escapes from the castle to the country side were they got married and lived. They had a daughter together who would take pieces of gold coins and go into town to buy things for her parents. One day when the king heard about these coins and had his guards wait for the girl to buy something else so he could kidnap her and bring her to his castle. The king demanded her to tell him how she did it and she said her grandfather planted the gold and it grew. Once fall approached and things beginning to grow, the king went around the kingdom looking for his gold but there was not any just food. The next day Rumpelstilskin’s daughter took the king to town and gave all the grannies yellow yarn and gold needles to produce gold. Once again the king did not receive gold in return just saw everyone in yellow clothes. Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter told the King there was no gold but his people will have warm clothes all winter. The grannies brought the king presents and gifts and new clothes as well. He was excited she told him to remove his guards and the crocodiles too because the people loved him. He did just that and married her too. The King built them a large house; the people never went cold or hungry, and the story end by telling Rumpelstiltskin’s daughters name Hope.

Use in the classroom:

I would personally use this book in the classroom to help children understand how to treat others. I would have them make a list of what they would do to make the people love them if they were the King of this village. I would also ask had they ever met someone that was greedy like the king and ask what would they have done if they were Hope.