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Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates

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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 And for the cost, we expected something more than old black and white drawings and an outdated font.

As a 7th grade teacher, I read forty to fifty YA books a year. I recently came across my childhood copy of Hans Brinker and decided to read it again; I'd alaways loved it as a child of the '50s. Can you say boring? I must have read it multiple times only because I had so few books from which to choose in my childhood home in the Sudan. YA books today may contain some subject matters that are questionable and they may cross the line when they deal in the powers of evil, but they are at least INTERESTING and are capable of luring young minds to the joy of reading. It's no wonder that Mark Twain was appreciated when he injected his stories of real characters into the Pablum of 19th century children's literature!