Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates~Mary Mapes Dodge~1954~Childrens Classics~Very Good Condition~Free Shipping

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates~Mary Mapes Dodge~1954~Childrens Classics~Very Good Condition~Free Shipping.

This illustrated classic book is in very good condition. Minor cover wear. Tight binding. No markings or inscriptions. Shine on cover. See photos. A great gift book.

Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905) was an American children’s author and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. She was the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century.

Dodge was associated with St. Nicholas Magazine for more than thirty years, and it became one of the most successful magazines for children during the second half of the nineteenth century, with a circulation of almost 70,000 copies. She had the faculty of suggesting, creating, obtaining the contributions she wanted from just the people she wanted to write.

She was able to persuade many of the great writers of the world to contribute to her children’s magazine – Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tennyson, Longfellow, Bryant, Holmes, Bret Harte, John Hay, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and scores of others. One day, Kipling told her a story of the Indian jungle; Dodge asked him to write it down for St. Nicholas. He never had written for children, but he would try. The result was The Jungle Book.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (full title: Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland) is a novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865. The novel takes place in the Netherlands and is a colorful fictional portrait of early 19th-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of youthful honor.

The book’s title refers to the beautiful silver skates to be awarded to the winner of the ice-skating race Hans Brinker hopes to enter. The novel introduced the sport of Dutch speed skating to Americans, and in U.S. media Hans Brinker is still considered the prototypical speed skater.

The book is also notable for popularizing the story of the little Dutch boy who plugs a dike with his finger. - From Wikipedia

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