Rumpelstilzchen
(Rumpelstiltskin)
Read this tale aloud, or read along with your little one. Sentences are short and the words are simple.
Once a miller said: my daughter can spin straw into gold. The king heard. He put her in a room.
She had to spin. A little man came. He said: give me your necklace.
He spun the straw. It happened again. He took her ring.
It happened again. She had nothing. She said: give me my first baby.
She spun. The king married her. A baby came.
The little man came. He said: give me the baby. She wept.
He said: I will give you three days. She guessed names. She said: Rumpelstiltskin.
He was so angry. He ran away. He never came back.
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