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This is a rather odd expanded version of the Tom Tit Tot (Rumplestiltskin) story, with many additional character and settings and creatures and the Man in Moon. There were some creepy elements (the dark forest with its malicious little monsters) and some lovely ones (the misty shore, the moon lady who becomes a bird) but these didn't work harmoniously with the tone of the rest, which seemed to be loudly humorous in the style of English children's plays. I liked Poll the heroic little girl bravely rescuing her moron older sister, but the rest of the characters were an assembly of idiots, and it's ultimately impossible for me to find either humorous or romantic a story in which the king was ready and willing to chop off the girl's head -- not only at the start but after they'd been married a year and had a baby together.