2009Rating: 5
For: Kids
$16.99
Front endpapers: Elf walking through a lovely forest
Back endpapers: Pied Piper Fountan full of happy people swimming
Take one happy fairy tale full of magic and fun and imagination, add colorful full-page illustrations by Steven Kellogg, and every kid AND adult will be smiling. Sure, it's a corny, predictable story, but it's clever and charming, too.
A take on the pied piper, but many changes and additions make it practically a new story. Peterkin the elf has decided to look for work and spread a little happiness, so he sets off until he finds a run-down house in the woods. Elbavol, the witch, has always been unhappy, but Peterkin does such a topnotch cleaning jog that she gives him a pipe (horn) that has magical power that she's never been able to find. He discovers that it plays words, and if he flips over backwards, the words reverse.
Okay, one wicked king and many rats/star later, Elbavol/Lovable and the king marry and everyonee is happy, happy, happy!
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