Rumpelstiltskin
Hardcover – Picture Book, February 3, 2026
Scholastic Inc. · Hardcover · February 3, 2026
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A picture-book folktale retelling with a serious, giftable feel.
- Genres
- Folktale Retellings, Funny Stories, Magic & Fantasy
- Published
- Scholastic Inc., February 3, 2026
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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.
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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, paired with the stunning illustrations of the acclaimed and award-winning creator, Carson Ellis. With Barnett's signature pacing and wit, his subversive storytelling style and narrative voice, and Ellis's stunning folk-art style, this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin will introduce this classic story to a new generation of readers!
Folktale, Reframed
A picture-book folktale retelling with a serious, giftable feel.
Come here for
- folktale retelling, picture-book form
- Mac Barnett’s name on the spine
Expect
- layered fairy-tale atmosphere
- hardcover display appeal
Where it sits
| Folktale Retellings | 90% |
|---|---|
| Funny Stories | 61% |
| Magic & Fantasy | 47% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Folktale Retellings
- Funny Stories
- Magic & Fantasy
- Authors
- Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- Published
- February 3, 2026
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- Folktale Retellings