Fairy Tale Read A Louds For Busy Homeschooling Moms Rumpelstiltskin
Fairy tale read a louds can be so hard to fit in. There’s where did the fairy tale book go? and the respones of I don’t know. or watching your baby tear the fairy tale book you were just about to read from!
Sometimes we need fairy tales read online access for the sake of our sanity!
So this is what I am here to help you with today!
- Shorten story of Rumpelstiltskin from The Grimm brothers
- Long full Grimm’s version of Rumpelstiltskin
- Audio version to listen to while you fold laundry or what not.
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Rumpelstiltskin Quick Bedtime Story
Once there was a miller, who had occasion to talk to the king. To appear important he told the king his beautiful daughter could spin straw into gold.
The king had the miller bring his daughter to him where he put her in a room full of straw with a spinning wheel and said, “Now set to work, and if by to-morrow morning early you have not spun this straw into gold during the night, you must die.” and he locked her in.
The millers daughter worried herself into tears, for she did not know how to spin straw into gold.
Just then the door opened and in came a little man.
The little man asked the millers daughter what was wrong. After she told him, a bargain was reached wherein the little man would spin the straw into gold.
More Gold
By day break the king was there and was delighted with all the gold. But his heart became greedy and the millers daughter was put in a much larger room with much more straw.
Again the king left, the miller’s daughter cried, and the little man came to help for the price of her ring.
The next morning the king was delighted and put the millers daughter in an even larger room with even more straw. The king said, “You must spin this, too, in the course of this night, but if you succeed, you shall be my wife.”
The little man came again, but this time the millers daughter had nothing left to give him. “Then promise me, if you should become queen, to give me your first child.” “Who knows whether that will ever happen?” thought the miller’s daughter and so she agreed.
The king found what he wished for the next morning and married the beautiful millers daughter and became queen.
A Baby Was Born
A year later their first baby was born. The little man came for the child, but instead, the queen offered him all the riches she had.
“No, something that is living is dearer to me than all the treasures in the world.” Then the Queen began to weep and cry, so that the little man pitied her. “I will give you three days’ time,” said he; “if by that time you find out my name, then shall you keep your child.”
And so the queen gathered all the names she could with all the help she could. The first day passed without guessing the little mans name. Same thing happened on the second day.
A messengered was sent out to find more names. He came back with a story. He happened upon a little old man dancing around a house saying,
| “To-day I bake, to-morrow brew,The next I’ll have the young Queen’s child.Ha! glad am I that no one knewThat Rumpelstiltskin I am styled.” |
You may imagine how glad the Queen was when she heard the name! And when soon afterwards the little man came in, and asked, “Now, Mistress Queen, what is my name?” at first she said, “Is your name Conrad?” “No.” “Is your name Harry?” “No.” “Perhaps your name is Rumpelstiltskin?”
“The devil has told you that! The devil has told you that!” cried the little man. In a rage the little old man tore himself in two.
The End
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Rumpelstiltskin Full Version by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Once there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he had to go and speak to the King, and in order to make himself appear important he said to him, “I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold.” The King said to the miller, “That is an art which pleases me well; if your daughter is as clever as you say, bring her to-morrow to my palace, and I will try what she can do.”
And when the girl was brought to him he took her into a room which was quite full of straw, gave her a spinning-wheel and a reel, and said, “Now set to work, and if by to-morrow morning early you have not spun this straw into gold during the night, you must die.” Thereupon he himself locked up the room, and left her in it alone. So there sat the poor miller’s daughter, and for her life could not tell what to do; she had no idea how straw could be spun into gold, and she grew more and more miserable, until at last she began to weep.
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A Little Man
But all at once the door opened, and in came a little man, and said, “Good evening, Mistress Miller; why are you crying so?” “Alas!” answered the girl, “I have to spin straw into gold, and I do not know how to do it.” “What will you give me,” said the manikin, “if I do it for you?” “My necklace,” said the girl.
The little man took the necklace, seated himself in front of the wheel, and “whirr, whirr, whirr,” three turns, and the reel was full; then he put another on, and whirr, whirr, whirr, three times round, and the second was full too. And so it went on until the morning, when all the straw was spun, and all the reels were full of gold.
By daybreak the King was already there, and when he saw the gold he was astonished and delighted, but his heart became only more greedy. He had the miller’s daughter taken into another room full of straw, which was much larger, and commanded her to spin that also in one night if she valued her life. The girl knew not how to help herself, and was crying, when the door opened again, and the little man appeared, and said, “What will you give me if I spin that straw into gold for you?” “The ring on my finger,” answered the girl. The little man took the ring, again began to turn the wheel, and by morning had spun all the straw into glittering gold.
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More Gold
The King rejoiced beyond measure at the sight, but still he had not gold enough; and he had the miller’s daughter taken into a still larger room full of straw, and said, “You must spin this, too, in the course of this night, but if you succeed, you shall be my wife.” “Even if she be a miller’s daughter,” thought he, “I could not find a richer wife in the whole world.”
When the girl was alone the manikin came again for the third time, and said, “What will you give me if I spin the straw for you this time also?” “I have nothing left that I could give,” answered the girl. “Then promise me, if you should become queen, to give me your first child.” “Who knows whether that will ever happen?” thought the miller’s daughter, and, not knowing how else to help herself in this strait, she promised the manikin what he wanted, and for that he once more spun the straw into gold.
And when the King came in the morning, and found all as he had wished, he took her in marriage, and the pretty miller’s daughter became a Queen.
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A Baby Is Born
A year after, she had a beautiful child, and she never gave a thought to the manikin. But suddenly he came into her room, and said, “Now give me what you promised.” The Queen was horror-struck, and offered the manikin all the riches of the kingdom if he would leave her the child. But the manikin said, “No, something that is living is dearer to me than all the treasures in the world.” Then the Queen began to weep and cry, so that the manikin pitied her. “I will give you three days’ time,” said he; “if by that time you find out my name, then shall you keep your child.”
So the Queen thought the whole night of all the names that she had ever heard, and she sent a messenger over the country to inquire, far and wide, for any other names that there might be. When the manikin came the next day, she began with Caspar, Melchior, Balthazar, and said all the names she knew, one after another; but to every one the little man said, “That is not my name.” On the second day she had inquiries made in the neighbourhood as to the names of the people there, and she repeated to the manikin the most uncommon and curious. “Perhaps your name is Shortribs, or Sheepshanks, or Laceleg?” but he always answered, “That is not my name.”
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Luck!
On the third day the messenger came back again, and said, “I have not been able to find a single new name, but as I came to a high mountain at the end of the forest, where the fox and the hare bid each other good night, there I saw a little house, and before the house a fire was burning, and round about the fire quite a ridiculous little man was jumping: he hopped upon one leg, and shouted—
| “To-day I bake, to-morrow brew,The next I’ll have the young Queen’s child.Ha! glad am I that no one knewThat Rumpelstiltskin I am styled.” |
You may imagine how glad the Queen was when she heard the name! And when soon afterwards the little man came in, and asked, “Now, Mistress Queen, what is my name?” at first she said, “Is your name Conrad?” “No.” “Is your name Harry?” “No.” “Perhaps your name is Rumpelstiltskin?”
“The devil has told you that! The devil has told you that!” cried the little man, and in his anger he plunged his right foot so deep into the earth that his whole leg went in; and then in rage he pulled at his left leg so hard with both hands that he tore himself in two.
The End
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I have been told before how important it is to be able to see pictures of what you are reading to aid in your reading comprension among other things.
I found an interesting article that talks more about this if you would like to find out more. Here’s a quote from the article:
One study shows that using mental imagery helps primary school pupils learn and understand new scientific words, and that their subjective reports of the vividness of their images is closely related to the extent to which imagery enhances their learning.
I LOVE picture books, but stories without images are very important to have as well.
I have a collections of fairy tales, folk tales, and other such stories that will help you to easily read or listen to pictureless stories.
Until next time!