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Rumpelstiltskin

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Rumpelstiltskin

By: Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis - illustrator
Narrated by: Mac Barnett
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About this listen

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.

With Barnett's signature pacing and wit, his subversive storytelling style and narrative voice, this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin will introduce this classic story to a new generation of listeners!

©2026 Mac Barnett (P)2026 Scholastic Audio Books

Critic Reviews

* ''Two acclaimed creators retell a fairy-tale classic. Employing a conversational style, Barnett offers a fresh and immensely entertaining take on an old story... Deeply familiar but infused with 21st-century smarts; expect cries for repeated reads.''—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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