![]() Once you’ve read The Rumpelstiltskin Problem, you may never think about fairy tales in the same way again. Other times-amazingly-it is Rumpelstiltskin himself who wins the day, and in one tale, it is the king who cleverly escapes a quite unexpected fate. Usually it’s the daughter who gets off safely. A bevy of “miller’s daughters” confronts the perilous situation in ways that are sometimes comic, sometimes scary. ![]() Vivian Vande Velde has wondered too, and she’s come up with these six “alternative” versions of the old legend. Have you ever wondered just what was going on when that odd little man with the long name stepped up and volunteered to spin straw into gold for the miller’s daughter? When you stop to think about it, there are some very peculiar, not to mention hard to explain, aspects to that story. The Rumpelstiltskin Problem, by Vivian Vande Velde, was published in 2000 by Houghton Mifflin. ![]()
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