A collection of stories about young children from Holland and America.
In Mary Mapes Dodge's classic novel 'Hans Brinker', readers are transported to the 19th century Netherlands where the story follows the hardships and triumphs of a young boy named Hans Brinker.
On a bright December morning long ago, two thinly clad children were kneeling upon the bank of a frozen canal in Holland.The sun had not yet appeared, but the gray sky was parted near the horizon, and its edges shone crimson with the coming ...
In a little Dutch village covered in snow, Hans Brinker and his sister, Gretel, enter a race with two grand prizes: a pair of skates for a boy and another for a girl. Will they win the silver skates?