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![]() ![]() Do you feel sorry for Rump? Or do you laugh at his name? Shurtliff establishes a back-and-forth tension between sympathy and humor that immediately earns the reader’s empathy and trust.Įvery aspect of Rump’s life is tangled…his family, reputation, finances, and friendships. “My mother named me after a cow’s rear end.” ![]() Rump is the first in her series of fractured fairy tales, and students will be primed to jump into the rest after enjoying Rump. ![]() Author Liesl Shurtliff presents the story-behind-the-story of the fabled Rumpelstiltskin, pulling back the curtain to reveal the truth behind his famed ability to spin straw into gold, and the heavy price that ability exacts. We invite readers to revisit, rediscover, and rethink what you know about fairy tales with Rump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin. ![]()
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