Hans Brinker

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Call Number: J Fiction / Coville, Bruce
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	J Fiction / Coville, Bruce	4-week checkout	On Shelf

A Dutch brother and sister 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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nice illustrations, but needs more focus submitted by camelsamba on August 2, 2011, 10:31pm I listened to Hans Brinker as an audio book some years ago. At the time, I realized I never would have read the book - 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. Obviously, you can't condense all that into a picture book - even if you take out the digressions. But even so, I felt like this book could have been more focused - perhaps just focus on the race, or on the mystery involving the father. At first impression, the illustrations are lovely, kind of evoking Dutch masters, but they also have some very odd elements (like Annie's face, any time you see it).