Barbara Bartos-Höppner (1923–2006)

I really enjoyed the tale of the Pied piper of Hamelin. I think a group of young students would have enjoyed it as well. There seemed to be more dialogue in this particular folk lore book out of all of the ones I had read, and I think it would be a great aspect to bring up to students. Bringing up the style of writing and the fact that the dialogue is always in quotes would be a good thing for young students. I think the tale is interesting because it tells the story of the Pied Piper getting rid of all of the rats in the town, but isn't paid for his work. Because of this, the pied piper leads all the children in the same way that he lead the rats away from the town.

I actually thought that I might struggle with this a little at first because I wasn't sure how the students would react to the fact that he took them all away from their parents, but I think you could turn it around and teach them about how not to talk to strangers, and so on.… (meer)