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Title: Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge ISBN: 0-689-84909-5 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An American Masterpiece!
Comment: I first read this book as a boy in the fourth grade more than forty years ago. I loved it then and I love it more even now. Skating on canals is always great fun! Frankly, it was a new book that got me thinking about this old classic. "Santa & Pete: A Novel of Christmas Present and Past" came out last year and it is a wonderful retelling of the Saint Nicholas story, which is also an important part of "Hans Brinker." And so Santa and Pete got me thinking about Hans and those silver skates. I don't want anyone to touch Mary Dodge's work but can't we find some way to get "new" writers to revive these great old stories.
Rating: 5
Summary: a wonderful book
Comment: Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates is one of the best books I've ever read. It is one of the only books that has ever made me cry. This book uses some Dutch words. Next to the word there is sometimes a small 1 telling you at the bottom of the page is a definition. For example in one sentence it says: Lets go get some 1. Tiffen. At the bottom of the page it says something like: 1 Tiffen - lunch.
Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel have been living with their mother who has spent the last ten years caring for their father who got what you could kind of call amnesia while out on the dykes. He has no memory and has sometimes done awful things without realizing it.
Suddenly the Brinker's luck begins to change and they have happiness as well as some pain.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Classic
Comment: I was given this book when I was very young and it sat on my shelf for years before I became interested enough to read it. I wish I had picked it up sooner! But then perhaps I needed to mature more before I could appreciate it. I was utterly fascinated (I read this in my teens) and even the historical "textbook" portions captivated me. I love to learn history from fiction, and this did an excellent job - Dutch history and culture came alive. I have re-read it several times since, and no Disney move can do justice to the book. (Well, I don't believe any movie can really do justice to a book.) The characters are real and we easily empathize with them, the adventure is exciting and the climax of the race does not disappoint. It should be in every child's library.
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Title: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss ISBN: 0440415942 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Heidi by JOHANNA SPYRI ISBN: 0517189674 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Black Beauty by ANNA SEWELL ISBN: 0517189585 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 22 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha Tudor ISBN: 006440188X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title:Hans Brinker ASIN: B0000DI873 Publisher: Kultur Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.96 |
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