First edition of The Pied Piper of Hamelin retold by Sara and Stephen Corrin, illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Retold by Sara and Stephen Corrin. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain. First US edition, 1989. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers.
Front flap:
"Faithful to events immortalized in Robert Browning's classic poem, this new edition of The Pied Piper of Hamelin tells of the rat-infested streets of Hamelin, the despair of its townspeople, and their Mayor's foolish act of treachery that provokes the Rat Catcher's horrid revenge.
"But what really happened?"
The Mayor hired a rat catcher to rid the town of vermin at a time of plague but then reneged on payment. As the story goes, as payback the Pied Piper led the town's children out of the city...there are multiple endings to the story. The Corrins offer several possibilities in a historical note at the end of the book. In 1284, 130 children of Hamelin, Germany disappeared. They may have been kidnapped as serfs of local landowners. They may have been the 40,000 German children carried off by the Children's Crusade, in the belief that innocent children were needed to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims. No one knows for sure, and the legend has lived on.
Errol Le Cain (1941 - 1989) was an award-winning British children's book illustrator and animator, awarded a Kate Greenaway Medal for Hiawatha's Childhood.
Sara and Stephen Corrin also collaborated with Le Cain on Mrs. Fox's Wedding.
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