Hans Brinker

by Mary Mapes Dodge
List(s):"Carp 500"
Category: "Fiction - Chapter Books"
Pages:329
Year of Publication:1915
Date Read:03/10/1996
Notes:One strand of the story deals with Hans and Gretel living in poverty with their self-sacrificing mother and their sick father, while the characters of the other strand are the boisterous children of the well-to-do. The children share experiences leading up to the match for a pair of silver skates.

COMMENTS — Although the novel gives a very accurate portrait of Dutch family life, history and geography, Mary Mapes Dodge never visited Holland.
My Rating: 8

Reviews for Hans Brinker

Review - Hans Brinker

Sappy, laced with improbably coincidences, choppy but somehow still enjoyable. It reads like a travelogue in places, but those places are interesting. Somehow it works, perhaps because Dodge had fun watching it.

Reviewed by Roger on 2003-07-20 16:40:01

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