The award-winning author of many beloved classics has written still another memorable and powerful story about the Netherlands.
In the village of Wierum, at the edge of the North Sea, practically everyone could skate except the very littlest children...and Moonta Riermersma, who was already nine years old. When ice finally came to the ditches and canals, Moonta was afire with enthusiasm, not only to learn to skate, but to let his skates lead him on to adventure. And when he heard of something called the New Church's Pipe, far out the long canal, he was determined to find out any risk.
The action has a magic excitement, and all the characters - Moonta, Mother, Father, Grandfather, Aunt Cora, and the head master - are as real as they are appealing. The pictures by Nancy Gorssman seem to blow the very winds of Holland right across the page.
