Straw Into Gold
by Gary D. Schmidt
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Pursued by greedy villains, two boys on a quest to save innocent lives meet the banished queen whose son was stolen by Rumpelstiltskin eleven years earlier, and she provides much more than the answer they seek.Tags
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If you like fairy tales this is a good book to read. This is the retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, done in a very clever and creative way.
After reading two excellent YA books by Schmidt, I am on a quest to read all of his writings. His images are crisp, the writing is good and he has the ability to allow the reader to feel the emotions of the characters.
In this version, Rumpelstiltskin is not the ogre or creepy little guy who poses a riddle for his own gain, but rather, he has a unselfish reason to want the child.
Gary Schmidt depicts medieval life and political intrigue in a fascinating portrayal of "what if." What if the straw is spun into gold but the Miller's daughter cannot discover his name. What if Rumelstiltskin gets to keep the show more baby.
This is a quick, breezy read and while it is not in depth, it is delightful and I recommend it. show less
After reading two excellent YA books by Schmidt, I am on a quest to read all of his writings. His images are crisp, the writing is good and he has the ability to allow the reader to feel the emotions of the characters.
In this version, Rumpelstiltskin is not the ogre or creepy little guy who poses a riddle for his own gain, but rather, he has a unselfish reason to want the child.
Gary Schmidt depicts medieval life and political intrigue in a fascinating portrayal of "what if." What if the straw is spun into gold but the Miller's daughter cannot discover his name. What if Rumelstiltskin gets to keep the show more baby.
This is a quick, breezy read and while it is not in depth, it is delightful and I recommend it. show less
An exploration of why Rumpelstiltskin wanted the miller's daughter's baby. There is magic, a riddle and conflict between leaders
Gives a different slant to the Rumplestiltskin tale.
A "sequel" to Rumpelstiltskin.
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Author Information
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A much published and oft-translated author of children's books, Gary D. Schmidt has earned national acclaim. In 2011, his Okay for Now was a National Book Award finalist and was listed on the Notable. Children's Book lists of the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune; and the Boston Globe. Trouble (2008) was a Junior Library Guild Selection and show more appeared on the Kids Reading list for Oprah's Book Club. The Wednesday Wars (2007) and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (2004) were both John Newbery Honor Books. Schmidt is also professor of English at Calvin College and the author and coeditor of several scholarly books on children's literature and children's book authors. He lives in Alto, Michigan. show less
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- Canonical title
- Straw Into Gold
- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Tousel; Innes; Rumpelstiltskin
- Dedication
- For Anne, who knows what fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold
- First words
- Once when the world was younger and the times ever so much older, there lived a miller who ground coarse flour, left stone chips in his meal, and stole as much wheat as he could take without his customers knowing for certain ... (show all)that they had been robbed.
- Quotations
- That night brought with it the first warm breezes of the early spring. They came up as if they had been massing just outside the kingdom's borders, and then rushed forward like a roiling cloud. They blew up and over the cit... (show all)y gates, setting the icicles to melting, dropping soggy chunks of snow from battlements, and puffing gently into houses and stables, so that men and women and horses and dogs woke from sleep and sniffed at the new smells.
So we danced and whistled through the night, until the dark sipped back the stars one by one and faded with its bloating. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They stood open against the sky that the setting sun had washed to a quiet gold.
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