Hi there boys and girls!
Welcome to story time with me! Ms. Booksy.
Today's story is Rumplestiltskin
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Long, long ago,
there was a dad, and he had a kid.
A daughter, actually.
That's me!
Together, we made fine designer clothing!
The clothes we made were SO fancy,
that the KING wanted to wear them!
The clothes you make are fantastic!
Aw gee, thank you king! Thanks a whole kit and caboodle,
but my daughter's the real artist!
She's so delicate when she's spinning,
I bet she can spin straw into gold!
BOOKSY: Well, as you might know, kings like gold.
They like gold A LOT.
GOLD you say?
Hmmm....
I'd like to meet this daughter of yours!
Send her to my castle for brunch this Sunday!
We'll have Melba toast and salmon lox!
So that Sunday, I went to the king's castle for brunch,
But instead of Melba toast and salmon lox,
I got horse hay and dungeon locks!
Oh dear!!
The king locked me away in the dungeon!
You can come out, once you spin all this straw...
into gold!
... I didn't actually know how to spin straw into gold!
That was just a figure of speech!
Somebody please help me!!
Why hello there!
A little elf man appeared...
I see you need to sew some straw into gold...
That happens to be my specialty.
That's... pretty random...
But, ok!
I don't have much, but I'll give you anything!
Hm... how 'bout that necklace of yours!
It's very pretty.
And even though this necklace was a gift from my BFF Snow White,
I made the deal!
I couldn't be stuck in this stinky dungeon forever!
The elf man worked his magic.
He sang while he worked!
Which was kind of annoying, but he was helping me out!
When the king came back in the morning,
the hay was gone! And in it's place:
Your gold!
The king was utterly flabbergasted.
I'm utterly flabbergasted!
Well, I'm pretty good at this... obviously.
Good!
I want more!!
So this time I'm going to give 100 times the hay!
If you can spin it all into gold by morning, I'll let you out.
But if not, you will be sent out onto the ocean in a leaky ship!
Never to return!
Oh, and the ship will be full of singing mice.
Who are terrible singers!
Mwahahaha!
Now get back to sewing.
... Mean!
So, night came, and I didn't know what else to do,
So I called out:
Uh, heeey, magic... little... dude....
I forgot your name, but I, uh, I need you!
Sooo, you need more help, do ya?
I do... I do! I dooo!
It's gonna cost ya.
Anything, I'll give you anything you want!
Pinky promise?
Again, he sang as he worked.
Spinning! Sewing! Gold a-glowing! Taking hay and making it paaay!
It took all night.
And I got seriously tired of that song.
But my friend sewed every last bit of straw into GOLD!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
How much do I owe you?
On the night of your first son's first birthday,
I will return
to take him as my own!!!
He laughed all crazy-like and
disappeared!
Wait... he didn't say he was gonna take my son on his first birthday, did he?
Nah, that would be crazy!
The next day, the king saw all that gold,
and he was so excited
he let me go!
So, fast-forward a bit...
I'm in charge of my own designer clothing company!
I'm married, I have a super cool house!
A dog and a cat.
I had forgotten all about the little elf who spun straw into gold.
I was living happily ever after!
Until the night of my first son's first birthday.
We were all celebrating, having a great time!
...when the little old elf crashed the party!
Here I am!
Gimme that baby!
Okay, funny story,
I thought you were kidding! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Isn't that funny? Ha ha ha ha ha!
Not really.
You made a pinky promise!
Okay! Okay, I'll give you gold!
Tons of gold!
I don't need gold!
I cant turn straw into gold myself! Remember?
But I'll make a deal with you, lady
If you can guess my name, you can keep your son!
But if you don't, I'll take him AND your first daughter!
Do we have a deal?
I began to guess.
Paul?
Mike?
Mark?
Shawn?
Sean spelled S-e-a-n?
Shaun spelled S-h-a-u-n?
Tim?
Tom?
Tyler?
Taylor?
Kanye?
S-s-senior?
Junior?
I guessed hundreds of names, hundreds upon hundreds of names!
But I just couldn't come up with it!
To make matters worse, the horrible little elf was leaning over the crib,
singing a lullaby. That's MY job!
I'll have a son! I'm gonna win!
She'll never guess my name 'cause it's Rumpelstiltskin!
Just then, the baby giggled!
And spoke his very first word!
He said:
Rumpelstiltskin!
Everyone was so excited,
as they always are when babies say their first words.
What did he say?
Nothing! Um... I think he wants his bottle?
Rumpelstiltskin! Rumpelstiltskin!
Your name is Rumpelstilksin!!
No, no! Not fair! Not fair! Ugh!!
Ha ha ha! We won! We won!
But seriously, we called the police a long time ago, anyway.
You think you were just gonna come in here and take my baby?
I'm his mom!
You're a bad elf, and you're going to jail!
And so we were free from Rumpelstiltskin forever!
So my family went on a vacation cruise to celebrate.
And the mice on this ship were excellent singers!
The brunch buffet was pretty good too!
Smoked salmon with perfection! Mwah!
The end!
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