Straw Into Gold

What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order of the king two boysTousle and Innes must find the answer to this puzzling riddle within sevendays or be... » 

What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order of the king two boysTousle and Innes must find the answer to this puzzling riddle within sevendays or be killed. A former nursemaid to the queens child tells the boys thatthe banished queen may have the answer they seek. Danger presents itself atevery turn for the boys are pursued by the Great Barons who are secretlyplotting against the king. Another pursuer the greedy Kings Grip reveals astrange story of a little man who once spun straw into gold of incrediblebeauty for the queen but then disappeared with her firstborn son. Touslerealizes that the man he calls Da is the strange little man and even moreamazing that he himself may be the lost prince. Or could it be Innes whoalthough cruelly blinded can hear the music of the dawn? This skillful blend offantasy and adventure reveals what might have happened before the queen makesher third and last guess and the story of Rumpelstiltskinas we know itends. «