After Hamelin - Tapa blanda

Delightful and thoughtful ... This intriguing tale invents a complete and believable alternative world. Features a wild and unpredictable dreamscape ... Penelope's the protagonist wise, sometimes bitter voice remains fresh and provocative. This fantasy novel is a tribute to the skill and vision of an amazing writer! Highly Recommended.--Susan Fonseca"Canadian Materials" (06/08/2001) Blending aspects of classical myth and literary fantasy, the tale builds to a fine resolution and casts a hypnotic spell.--Anne O'Malley"Booklist" (02/15/2001) [Features] a wild and unpredictable dreamscape ... Penelope's [the protagonist] wise, sometimes bitter voice remains fresh and provocative. Delightful and thoughtful ... This intriguing tale invents a complete and believable alternative world. Finely realized characters ... Blending aspects of classical myth and literary fantasy, the tale builds to a fine resolution and casts a hypnotic spell.--Anne O'Malley"Booklist" (02/15/2001) Not only is After Hamelin a page-turning adventure story that children will love, it is also a teacher's dream. Read this story aloud to a class and savour the amazing characters, the images, the rhymes, the songs, and the play of Richardson's language. Enter a dream world of adventure, populated by talking cats, three-legged dogs and skipping dragons... Bill Richardson is a magician who spins magic with his words. A gifted storyteller, a writer, a broadcaster, as well as a former children's librarian, he has written several humorous books for adults, including Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast. After Hamelin is his first children's novel.... [The book] has excellent curriculum ties in the areas of storytelling, friendship, travel, courage, magic, fantasy, relationships, deafness, sexism, Middle Ages, imagery, character development, voice and language. This fantasy novel is a tribute to the skill and vision of an amazing writer! Highly Recommended.--Susan Fonseca"Canadian Materials" (06/08/2001)

Penelope is about to turn eleven and can't wait to see what life has in store. But on the morning of her birthday, Pen- elope wakens to discover she can no longer hear, just as the Pied Piper, leads the other children of Hamelin out of town. Now Penelope must set out to rescue the children. Age 10 plus.