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Morpurgo, Michael

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

64 pp. | Candlewick | October, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-4824-4 $16.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark. In Morpurgo's Hamelin Town, the children starve while the "rich and the greedy lived like kings and queens." Then comes a "plague of rats," who eat all the food and begin hunting in packs. Before its happy ending, the book is pretty grim; Clark's watercolors lighten the mood with lots of patterns and by depicting the rats as slightly comical.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012

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