Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates

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Call Number: Y BOCD Fiction / Dodge, Mary
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids 4-week checkout	Y BOCD Fiction / Dodge, Mary	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Unabridged.
Narrated by John McDonough.
A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.

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classic submitted by camelsamba on August 2, 2011, 10:35pm I listened to Hans Brinker as an audio book in part because I felt like I was missing a literary classic. I'm glad I listened, because I doubt I would have read past the first chapter - it starts with a long history and geology of the Netherlands, and it contains a number of very long digressions that do not move the story along. It's also quite heavy-handed and didactic in parts, but perhaps that is true to the era. The core of the story is interesting, but there's a lot of other stuff around it.