Hans Brinker: Or The Silver Skates

by Mary Mapes Dodge, Kathryn Lindskoog (Editor)

Overview

Hans Brinker: The Silver Skates is the story of a poor brother and sister in long-ago Holland—the beautiful land of windmills, tulips, and wooden shoes. Here, Hans and his sister Gretel experience championship skating, hunger, family hardship, and countless adventures. Through trials and moments of great joy, Hans and Gretel show how faith in Christ and loving sacrifice can heal families more than any amount of riches. Kathryn Lindskoog faithfully preserves every detail of the original story. Outdated language and historical inaccuracies are trimmed away so the exciting plot and characters can take center stage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780875527253
Publisher:	Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing
Publication date:	08/29/2001
Series:	Classics for Young Readers Series
Edition description:	Abridged
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Mary Mapes Dodge was born in 1834 in New York City. As a teenager, she wrote unsigned articles for her father's magazine. She later married and had two sons. After her husband’s death, she moved into her parent’s home and decided to become a writer. Her first work was a collection of children's stories. Hans Brinker was published when Dodge was thirty-one and it made her famous. At age thirty-nine she became editor of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls. Editor: Kathryn Lindskoog, educator, literary critic, an expert on C.S. Lewis, and poet has written and edited more that twenty-five books, among them: A Child's Garden of Christian Verses and How to Grow a Young Reader. In addition to teaching high-school English for seven years, she taught as an adjunct instructor at several universities. Her teaching career became limited by Multiple Sclerosis, which became disabling in the 1960's.

Table of Contents

1.	Hans and Gretel	9
2.	Holland	13
3.	The Silver Skates	18
4.	Hans and Gretel Find a Friend	23
5.	Shadows in the Home	29
6.	Sunbeams	35
7.	Hans Has His Way	37
8.	Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin	40
9.	The Festival of Saint Nicholas	44
10.	What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam	50
11.	Big Manias and Little Oddities	56
12.	On the Way to Haarlem	59
13.	A Catastrophe	61
14.	Hans	64
15.	Homes	68
16.	Haarlem--The Boys Hear Voices	73
17.	The Man with the Four Heads	76
18.	Friends in Need	79
19.	On the Canal	84
20.	Jacob Poot Changes the Plan	87
21.	Mr. Kleef and His Menu	91
22.	The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous	93
23.	Before the Court	100
24.	The Beleaguered Cities	103
25.	Leyden	105
26.	The Palace in the Wood	108
27.	The Merchant Prince and the Sister Princess	110
28.	Through the Hague	117
29.	A Day of Rest	122
30.	Homeward Bound	124
31.	Boys and Girls	128
32.	The Crisis	133
33.	Gretel and Hilda	139
34.	The Awakening	144
35.	Bones and Tongues	148
36.	A New Alarm	151
37.	The Father's Return	156
38.	The Thousand Guilders	160
39.	Glimpses	166
40.	Looking for Work	170
41.	The Fairy Godmother	175
42.	The Mysterious Watch	181
43.	A Discovery	188
44.	The Race	195
45.	Joy in the Cottage	206
46.	Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs	213
47.	Broad Sunshine	216
48.	Conclusion	221

Editorial Reviews

Hans Brinker was my best boyhood dream. Could I, if I tried terribly hard, become somebody like him?. . . I am delighted that he is being brought back to life.

Lewis Smedes