Rumplestiltskin - A plain girl turns into a homely young lady, an ugly woman, and finally a hideous crone. But this plan unravels and he and his daughter find themselves locked up and soon to be killed unless she can create gold from straw.ģ) Domovoi - Drunk on vodka the miller tells the king his daughter can spin straw into gold, and also drunk, the king believes it.Ĥ) Papa Rumplestiltskin - A big-mouthed, proud father, the miller overexaggerates his daughters spinning and lands them both into trouble.ĥ) Ms. The joke is that the miller's daughter can spin straw into gold, but the king takes this seriously.Ģ) Straw Into Gold - After their mill burns down, a miller tries to trick someone into giving him 3 gold coins (to start over) with a story about how his daughter can spin straw into gold. As Vivian Vande Velde says in her foreward, the original tale makes no sense! This was a fun, fast read.ġ) A Fairy Tale in Bad Taste - Rumplestiltskin is a troll, out to find out what human baby tastes like.He tricks a miller and his daughter into joking with the king. (Apr.Really amusing versions of what really happened in the Rumplestiltskin fairytale. There’s enough light humor throughout to keep readers hooked. Baker’s The Frog Princess, and while the cast is fairly one-dimensional, Imogene’s misadventures as an amphibian are entertaining. Too kind to use that sort of deceit on someone else, Imogene searches for another solution, tracking down the none-too-sympathetic witch who cast the original spell, getting captured by a boy-crazy runaway named Luella and her know-it-all actor boyfriend (who use Imogene as a gimmick to attract an audience for their theater troupe’s lousy plays), and trying to find a way home. He returns to his human form, but she is transformed into a frog as a result worse, he was just the lowly son of a wagon maker. The real trouble begins when a (rather pushy) frog, who tells Imogene he’s a prince beset by a witch’s spell, tricks her into kissing him. Vande Velde previously reworked classic fairy tales in The Rumpelstiltskin Problem and Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, and she now turns to the “The Frog Prince.” Princess Imogene, who is 12 and “gawky,” is tired of falling short in her family’s eyes.
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