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Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge book cover

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Author(s):Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Publisher(s): Appleton-Century Company
Year Published: 1936
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
European
Families
Fiction - Novel
Girls Growing Up
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 309
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 6195017

Description

Hans and his sister must help keep the family going while their father is ill.

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Other Editions

Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1915)

Hans and Gretel’s father has been unable to work. If Hans wins the skating race it will help to support the household. Hans decides to ask the famous brain surgeon if he can help their father.

Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
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Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1924)

Hans and his sister try to earn money to help their mother and pay for a doctor to cure their father.

Publisher: Harper & Brothers
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Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1926)

Hans and Gretel’s father has been unable to work. If Hans wins the skating race it will help to support the household. Hans decides to ask the famous brain surgeon if he can help their father.

Read online at archive.org. 

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
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Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1932)

Hans and Gretel Brinker’s father has been unable to work so they must help support the family, but they still have fun skating on the Dutch canals in winter.

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.
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Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1946)

The classic tale of Hans and Gretel and the race for the silver skates.

Publisher: World Publishing Company
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Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1958)

Hans and Gretel’s father has been unable to work. If Hans wins the skating race it will help to support the household. Hans decides to ask the famous brain surgeon if he can help their father.

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
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