Straw into Gold: A Rumpelstiltskin Retelling by Hilary McKay
By Hilary McKay and Sarah Gibb
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Rumpelstiltskin - all my life I have been troubled by the injustice with which he was treated . . .
Straw into Gold is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!
From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Hilary McKay
Hilary McKay is a critically acclaimed award-winning author. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Exiles, and the Smarties and the Whitbread Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Angel respectively. Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales was her first book with Macmillan Children's Books and is a critically acclaimed collection of clever retellings. Her 2018 title, The Skylarks' War, marks the centenary of the end of the First World War and was the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. It is a classic in the making.
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Straw into Gold - Hilary McKay
To Ron and Mary Damms
My father, who told me my first fairy tales, and my mother, who once (this is true), when she was twelve years old, spent an afternoon in a magic place that could only have been fairyland.
Because when she went back to visit again, it had vanished, except for the memory that she treasures to this day.
Contents
Introduction
Straw into Gold
About the Author
About the Illustrator
Bibliography/Further Reading
Introduction
Of course these are not my fairy tales; they are everyone’s fairy tales, and have been for many years. Hundreds in the case of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and thousands in the case of Rumpelstiltskin. They are our living heritage, true fairy gold, except these stories do not disappear at sunset. Their day still shines. The best of them are well and flourishing, in schools and libraries, homes and playgrounds, just as much as they are with historians and universities.
They live because they are so strong. They have withstood the years. Countries and rulers have come and gone, revolutions and wars have redrawn the old lines across Europe and beyond, forests have been felled, the wolves have all but vanished . . . and yet still their magic holds. Whoever has walked through a shadowy landscape, listening for the footsteps behind, has travelled with Red Riding Hood through the forest. Those far from home know the exile of the Swan Brothers. And I do not suppose there are many people reading this who have not speculated on the hazards of glass slippers, gingerbread houses, shiny red apples, and the problems of being caught out after midnight when you