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Title: Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli, Richard Tchen ISBN: 0-14-131110-X Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (33 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A pretty but sad story -- a must read!
Comment: Spinners is a terrific retelling of the story of Rumpelstiltskin! (It has a great cover, too.) Spinners adds onto the original fairy tale a bit, showing you the perspective of the title character, who starts out as a talented tailor, who's poor but at the height of his life. He goes through a lot and you really have sympathize him. This book didn't end the way I hoped, and I'm trying not to spoil the book for you - but I must say, this book's ending was VERY tragic and . . . well, disappointing! I mean, the tailor never got what he deserved! However, this book provokes emotion as it was probably meant to and it does a great job, too. I highly recommend this book to others (at least above the age of 12)!
Rating: 5
Summary: A tender and tragic tale
Comment: Napoli and Tchen weave a beautiful and bitter-sweet tale that takes this fairy tale to a new level. Based on the age old story of Rumpelstiltskin, Spinners delves into the story behind the story. The Spinner is a tailor who loves a woman so desperatly that he would do anything for her, even spin straw into gold. When he promises her father to clothe his love in gold he has to make good on his word. But his ever faithful love marries the drunken old miller instead. But she is with the Spinner's child.
Fifteen years later, the spinner returns to his village and saves his daughter, who likewise has a gift for spinning, from the fate imposed upon her by the king.
Beautiful retelling of the classic fairy tale, poignant and moving. I was unused to the tense in which the story was written, but it soon became natural to read as if it were just happening. If you have ever read Napoli's other books, such as Zel you will love this one!
Rating: 5
Summary: Heart-wrenching and complex
Comment: This story brings much insight into the otherwise unsensical fairy tale "Rumplestiltskin". This is not a "retelling" per se, but a "what if" kind of story. "What if" Rumplestilksin was not just a evil little man, "what if" the miller's daughter was forced to marry the king, "what if" there was some other connection between the girl and the gold-spinner besides the obvious one in the original tale? Filled with the "what if's", this book shows that Rumplestilksin is one to be pitied, that so is the miller's daughter to be pitied, for because of her father's pitiful lie, she lives the rest of her life in soulful misery - until the birth of her first child. But that joy also is threatened because of the promise she herself gave to Rumplestiltskin. Saskia up to that point is living only to survive - she has no love for her husband, only a semblence of love for her childhood friend and her father.
We find that both Rumplestiltskin and Saskia want to live, though they are both miserable yearning for something that they both lack in their lives - not because of their own shortcomings, however. They are both victims, and it wrenches your heart. A beautiful story with powerful themes - emotionally complex, easy to engage in.
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Title: Zel by Donna Jo Napoli ISBN: 0141301163 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli ISBN: 0140374396 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli ISBN: 0590383892 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Beast by Donna Jo Napoli ISBN: 0689835906 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey ISBN: 074342221X Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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