Lewis Smedes, Fuller Theological Seminary
HANS BRINKER was my best boyhood dream. Could I, if I tried terribly hard, become somebody like him? What a shame that hardly anybody knows Hans Brinker anymore. I am delighted that he is being brought back to life.
Book Description
The music has commenced ... Where are the racers?
All assembled together near the white columns.
It is a beautiful sight. Forty boys and girls in picturesque
attire darting with electric swiftness in and out among
each other, or sailing in pairs and triplets, beckoning,
chatting, whispering in the fullness of youthful glee.
In a little Dutch village covered in snow, Hans Brinker and his sister, Gretel, glide down the canals on hand-carved wooden skates. Metal skates are much too expensive. Even so, they are two of the best skaters around. A race is announced with two grand prizes: a pair of skates for a boy and another for a girl. Hans and Gretel enter, but will they win the silver skates?
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They had skated but a few moments when Carl Schummel said mockingly to Hilda, "There's a pretty pair just coming upon the ice! The little ragpickers! Their skates must have been a present from the king direct."
Card catalog description
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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