The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Modern Retelling of the Classic Story
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (A Modern Retelling of the Classic Story) uses humor, a fun story and hilarious characters to teach vocabulary words to elementary age kids.
When Maxine Alsop and her cousins Ben and Frank announce they will spend the summer with their aunt in Hamelin, the news elicits shocks and gasps. Almost no one visits Hamelin and for good reason. Seventeen years before a man in pied coveralls led away hundreds of the town's children when the greedy Mayor Eben Miser (pronounced Mee-zer) refused to pay him for eliminating Hamelin's rat problem. When the three cousins solve the mystery of what happened to the missing children, they are worried the Pied Piper will come after them. Find out what happens when they meet him on a dark road late at night.
Laugh and LearnThis modern version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is written to both entertain and educate elementary age children. Vocabulary words are used and defined throughout the text of this fun story allowing your kids to laugh and learn at the same time.
The Pied Piper is back! Seventeen years ago in the town of Hamelin, a Pied Piper led away hundreds of children after Mayor Eben Miser refused to pay him for his rat exterminating services. No one had heard from them since. When Ben, Frank, and Maxine Alsop spend a summer at their aunt's cottage in Hamelin they think they may have figured out what happened to the lost children. They need to find proof to convince themselves and the townspeople, but the Pied Piper isn't far away. And he knows they have discovered his secret.