

If she is unsuccessful she will lose her son. When the little man appears to claim the child as promised the queen pleads with him so he gives her three days to guess his name. The stranger helps her and the girl marries the king and is happy until her first son is born. Seeing no way out of her predicament the young woman accepts. The third night she has nothing to give, the little man asks for her first born child. The first night it is her necklace, the second night it is her ring. Suddenly a strange little man appears and tells her he will help in exchange for a price. ISBN: 9780525442653.Ī beautiful young girl finds herself confined to a room full of straw with orders from the king to transform all of it into gold or she will die.

Paul Zelinsky lives in New York with his wife, Deborah, and the younger of their two daughters.Zelinsky, Paul O. Afterwards he received a graduate degree in painting from Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia and Rome. He attended Yale University, where he took a course with Maurice Sendak, which later inspired him to pursue a career in children's books. Paul Zelinsky was born in Evanston, Illinois. In 1840 they were invited by Frederick William IV of Prussia to settle in Berlin as members of the Academy of Sciences, and here they remained until their deaths (Wilhelm died in 1859 and Jacob in 1863). Both brothers had been professors at Göttingen for several years when in 1837 they became two of the seven leading Göttingen academics dismissed from their posts by the new King of Hanover for their liberal political views.


They both studied at Marburg, and from 1808 to 1829 mainly worked in Kassel as state-appointed librarians, Jacob also assisting in diplomatic missions between 18 and again in 1848. Jacob Ludwig Karl, the elder of the brothers Grimm, was born in 1785, and Wilhelm Karl in the following year.
