What kind of destiny comes with a name like Rump? When Gran’s death leaves Rump with even more questions, he sets out on an odyssey to untangle his life and find some answers. He is cursed by his name because in his kingdom, your name is your destiny. As Rump says, “Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn’t laugh at myself.”Īnd, while Rump uses humor to face his challenges, there are deeper, more complex forces at work. He has his beloved Gran on his side, and they share funny rhymes to lighten the load of their dire circumstances. 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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