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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2011
Morpurgo gives the old story about breaking promises a new spin that might resonate with the Occupy Wall Street protesters. He opens with a horrifying depiction of life in Hamelin Town, where the orphaned and abandoned children starve while the "rich and the greedy lived like kings and queens behind the walls and gates of their grand houses." Then come a "plague of rats," who eat all the food formerly sca...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011 | Folktales and Nursery Rhymes
In Morpurgo's Hamelin Town, the children starve while the "rich and the greedy lived like kings and queens." Then ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
