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1 review
Mary Mapes Dodge

Cosimo Classics, 2005

A disappointing version of this book
If you're looking for lively, colorful illustrations to enhance the story, don't buy this book. We were so disappointed that we sent it back. And for the cost, we expected something more than old black and white drawings and an outdated font.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
Mary Mapes Dodge

Cosimo Classics, 2005

Gretel looked at her [mother] in troubled silence, wondering whether it were very wicked to care more for one parent than for the other-and sure, yes, quite sure, that she dreaded her father, while she clung to her mother with a love that was almost idolatry. -from Hans Brinker A beloved childhood favorite for a century and a half-and a book that readers continue to enjoy and appreciate long into adulthood-Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates ...

The Boy Who Held Back the Sea (Picture Puffins)

2 reviews
Lenny Hort, Thomas Locker, ...

Puffin, 1993

Classic tale
This book tells a version of the story of the little Dutch boy who holds back the sea with his finger. In this version, the boy is a bit naughty. He gets to skip church by offering to carry a pie to blind man, but then eats the pie himself instead of delivering it. When he finds the leaky dike, nobody believes him because he is known to be such a troublemaker. As a result, he ends up spending ...

Hans Brinker;: Or, The silver skates
Mary Mapes Dodge

Scribner, 1958

Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates

18 reviews
Mary Mapes Dodge

ReadHowYouWant, 2007

I read about the author first
When I was in grade school, I read a biography of Mary Mapes Dodge. which described her personal life while she was writing Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates.The book became the #1 item on my Christmas wish list and that wish was granted. I read the book numerous times during my lifetime and quite unexpectedly as a corporate wife, I had the quite lovely experience of living in the Netherlands in ...

Hans Brinker Silver Skates (Great Illustrated Classics)

8 reviews
Mary Mapes Dodge

Playmore Publishers, 1994

ADVICE NEEDED!
I discovered a copy of Hans Brinker while cleaning up after my grandfather's death. He was an avid reader! My problem is, that I, too, have no idea when, where, or what value this book may be? My copy is rather aqua with a little dutch boy on the front carry two buckets over his shoulders. In the background is a dutch girl (ice skating) and a windmill. Inside the paperback cover is printed, ...

Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland (Illustrated Junior Library Edition, 1945)
Mary Mapes Dodge

Grosset & Dunlap, 1945

HANS BRINKER OR THE SILVER SKATES
Mary Mapes Dodge

Blue Ribbon Books, 1924

1st edition of this classic book with Louis Rhead illustrations.

The Hole in the Dike

1 review
Norma B. Green, Mary Mapes Dodge

Harpercollins, 1975

MY REVIEW
I would call this book a classic. I read it and had it read to me as a small child. I should hope this book continues to be read to children of elementary ages.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
Mary Mapes Dodge

Wildside Press, 2007

The classic children's story, reprinted in a facsimile edition.

Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates
Mary Mapes Dodge

Read Books, 2008

Hans Breitmann's ballads - 1915 - PREFACE - THE story of Hans Brinker, or of any boy born and bred in Holland, cannot be fitly told without including something of the story of Holland itself,-of its history, its oddities, and the leading characteristics of its heroic and thrifty people. All these must be borne in mind, for some of the traits peculiar to his race are ingrained in every Hollander, young or old, and Holland is as different from ...

Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates A Story of Life in Holland
Mary Mapes Dodge

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004

1914. Dodge, American author of children's books and first editor of St. Nicholas magazine, wrote the classic Hans Brinker. It is the story of a poverty-stricken brother and sister in the beautiful land of windmills, tulips, and wooden shoes. An exciting story about championship skating, hunger, hardship, adventure and buried gold, it is packed with secrets, mysteries, surprises, and determination that enables him to obtain help for his sick ...

Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power

66 reviews
Mary Mapes

St. Martin's Press, 2005

A sad commentary on the current state of journalism
Truth and Duty is a fascinating read and a very sad commentary on the state of the news media in our FauxNews World. Mary Mapes worked very hard on every story that she had ever done and did it with professionalism, that is, she gave an unbiased and fair account of every story that she had covered. However, when she prepared a story on the Bush National Guard years, she was bloggerized and ...

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