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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?

This is a story by Bill Martin Jr. illustrated by Eric Carle.


RIF Eric Carle Read Along 2007 por rif_web

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The legend which explain the death of many children in Hamelin, Germany, in the Middle Ages.

«The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great many children from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in pied (multicolored) clothing, leading the children away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizenry refuses to pay for this service, he retaliates by turning his magic on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as a fairy tale.

This version has also appeared in the writings of, among others, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, Robert Browning and Megadeth.»

Source: Wikipedia