First published in 1865 Hans Brinker is a beautiful childrens story about ahardworking honorable Dutch boy who faces serious challenges in his familyspoverty. W... » 

First published in 1865 Hans Brinker is a beautiful childrens story about ahardworking honorable Dutch boy who faces serious challenges in his familyspoverty. While he greatly desires to enter a big iceskating race with hissister Gretel Hans is much more concerned about his father a man injured froma fall off of a dike and in need of surgery. When Hans learns of a verybrusque expensive doctor who may be able to treat his father he offers hismoney saved for race skates to the doctor for the surgery. The outcome hasthrilled and surprised readers for well over one hundred years. Mary MapesDodge has woven a heartwarming tale with a wealth of authentic detail on Dutchlife in the early nineteenth century providing readers with a charming tale ofyouthful honor that has stood the test of time. «