![]() Spared because she is deaf to the Piper's bewitching tune, Penelope is left to grieve the loss of her friends and beloved sister Sophy until Cuthbert, the wise man of the village, reveals that Penelope possesses the unusual gift of deep dreaming. ![]() It is on this same day that the Piper returns to Hamelin to spirit the children away in an evil act of revenge upon the townspeople. On the morning of her eleventh birthday, she wakes to discover she can no longer hear. Penelope is 101 years old, but she can remember the story like it happened yesterday. Here is a raconteur who spins a narrative tale that takes readers into strange lands inhabited by unusual characters, both good and evil, where adventure abounds and unlikely saviors emerge. In a quest that is both contemporary and timeless, Richardson creates a magical world through inventive wordplay, uninhibited imagination and a facility with rhyme. ![]() Implicit in many folk and fairy tales is the question, 'Then what?'Īfter Hamelin picks up the story where the Robert Browning poem - or other tellings of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" - leaves off. ![]()
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