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Rump: The True Story Of Rumpelstiltskin (2013)

by Liesl Shurtliff(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307977935 (ISBN13: 9780307977939)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

review 1: Usually I'm a sucker for anything fairy tale, but Rump took me a long time to get into. The main character, Rump was just a hair too bitter for me to really like for most of the book, and the humor was appropriate for a 10-year old. As that's the age for which Rump was written that's not actually a bad thing. Still, while I would recommend this book to my students it doesn't hold up quite as well to an adult audience.
review 2: I picked this one up because of the title and then found out it made the 2014 Bluebonnet List. I can totally see why--fractured fairy tale with lots of adventure and an interesting backstory. I liked the way Shurtliff included other fairy tale characters and snippets of other stories without being totally obvious about it. Imaginative, e... morentertaining and well paced, it will certainly be popular with those middle grade readers. less

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