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Vande Velde, Vivian

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem

116 pp. | Houghton | October, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-618-05523-1 $$15.00
(4) 4-6 In a novel approach, Vande Velde retells this tale not once, but six times, inspired, she says, by questions begged by the original tale ("you'd think that in reality [the miller] would have noticed that his daughter doesn't actually know how to spin straw into gold"). The stories, for the most part amusing, drip with sarcasm; the humor is occasionally thin and more bitter than funny.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander

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