Rumpelstiltskin (Sp Tk) - by Mac Barnett (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Después del aclamado y exitoso libro Los tres chivitos Gruff, llega el segundo relato brillante y muy esperado de un cuento de hadas de los creadores Mac Barnett y Carson Ellis, cuyos libros han ganado el premio Caldecott y figuran en las listas de libros más vendidos del New York Times.

Érase una vez una niña inteligente con un padre no tan inteligente. Cuando su padre afirma que ella puede hilar paja para convertirla en oro, el rey la obliga a realizar esta tarea imposible, llevando a la niña a aceptar un extraño trato con un hombrecito misterioso. Pero cuando el diabólico embaucador Rumpelstiltskin llega e intenta cobrar la deuda, descubre que él es el engañado. Esta es la segunda entrega de la innovadora colección de cuentos de hadas magistralmente narrados por uno de los autores más célebres y estimados de la actualidad, Mac Barnett, junto con las impresionantes ilustraciones de la aclamada y galardonada creadora, Carson Ellis. Con el ritmo y el ingenio característicos de Barnett, su estilo narrativo subversivo y su voz narrativa, además del impresionante estilo de arte popular de Ellis, esta nueva versión de Rumpelstiltskin presentará esta historia clásica a una nueva generación de lectores.

In the follow-up to the highly acclaimed, instant bestseller, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, comes the second ​brilliant and highly anticipated fairy tale retelling from the New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Award-winning creators, Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis.

Once upon a time there was a clever girl with a not-so-clever father. When her father claims she can spin straw into gold, the king forces the girl to perform this impossible task. She has no other choice than to accept a strange deal from a mysterious little man. But when he arrives and attempts to collect the debt, the fiendish trickster Rumpelstiltskin discovers that he is the one who has been tricked! This is the second in the groundbreaking new collection of masterfully retold fairy tales crafted by one of today's most celebrated and esteemed authors, Mac Barnett, paired with the stunning illustrations of the acclaimed and award-winning creator, Carson Ellis. With Barnett's signature pacing and wit, his subversive storytelling style and narrative voice, and Ellis's stunning folk-art style, this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin will introduce this classic story to a new generation of readers!

About the Author

MAC BARNETT is the New York Times bestselling author of many picture books, including the New York Times bestseller The Three Billy Goats Gruff; The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse; the Caldecott Honor Book and E. B. White Read Aloud Award winner Sam and Dave Dig a Hole; the Shapes Trilogy (Triangle, Circle, and Square); and the Caldecott Honor Book and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Extra Yarn. Mac is also the author of the middle-grade series, Mac B., Kid Spy. He lives in Oakland, California.

CARSON ELLIS is the author and illustrator of the bestselling picture books Home and Du Iz Tak?, a Caldecott Honor book and the recipient of an E. B. White Read Aloud Award. She has illustrated a number of children's books, including What Is Love? by Mac Barnett, The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper, The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket, and the Wildwood Chronicles series by her husband, Colin Meloy. She lives on a farm with her family in Oregon.