Hans Brinker tying on his sister Gretel's ice skates, in an illustration from the 1876 French translation of the novel

The title of the book refers to the beautiful silver skates to be awarded to winner of the ice-skating race Hans Brinker hopes to enter.

The novel introduced the sport of Dutch speed skating to Americans, and in U. S. media Hans Brinker is still considered the prototypical speed skater.

In Holland, poor-but-industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister Gretel, yearn to participate in December's great ice-skating race on the canal.

Hans ' father, Raff Brinker, is sick and amnesiac, with violent episodes, because of a head injury caused by a fall from a dike and cannot work.

Dame Brinker, Hans and Gretel must work to support the family and are looked down upon in the community because of their low income and poor status.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates has been adapted into several films and plays, all of which center around the dramatic ice-skating competition as the climax of the story, in keeping with the book.

* A 1969 NBC made-for-television musical film, called simply Hans Brinker, starring Robin Askwith as Hans, Richard Basehart as Dr. Boekman, Eleanor Parker as Dame Brinker and Cyril Ritchard as Mynheer Kleef the Innkeeper.

This small tale within Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates has generated numerous versions and adaptations in American media.

The statues are sometimes mistakenly titled " Hans Brinker "; others are known as " Peter of Haarlem ".

Versions of the story prior to Hans Brinker appear in several English-language publications from 1850 onward, including the following British and American publications:

In sum, although Dodge was not the originator of the story of the boy and the dike, the immense popularity of her novel Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates made the story very widely known.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates ; 2003 Dover edition.

* Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates complete book readable free online on Google Book Search.

* Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates ( 1896 edition ) – full scanned copy

* Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates ( 1910 edition ) – full scanned copy

* Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates – e-text from Project Gutenberg

* Hans Brinker ( 2007 ) by Bruce Covill – 40-page illustrated retelling of Hans Brinker for young readers

Gretel wins the girls ' race, but Hans lets a friend — who needs it more — win the precious prize, the Silver Skates, in the boys ' race.

Brauchitsch was the uncle of Manfred von Brauchitsch, a 1930s Mercedes-Benz " Silver Arrow " Grand Prix driver, and Hans Bernd and Werner von Haeften, both members of the German resistance against Hitler.

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Now, besides the river and the fishing, it is now also famous because of a story within the 1865 American novel, Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates.

* Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

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# REDIRECT Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

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* DQ-1282 Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

* Hans Christian Nielsen, Silver 1960

The Silver Arrow racing cars of the Auto Union racing team in Zwickau, developed by Ferdinand Porsche and Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, driven by Bernd Rosemeyer, Hans Stuck, Tazio Nuvolari, Ernst von Delius, were known the world over in the 1930s.

* Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

At the time Dodge was an associate editor of the weekly periodical Hearth and Home, as well as the author of children's novels, including the best-seller Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates.

Hans Werner Henze has made a version of Hartmann's Piano Sonata No. 2 for full orchestra.

In 1929 Hans Bauer wrote a full description of the register of Bodeck.

( Rushton had previous experience with the V & A when he had pulled a prank on the institution by labelling an electric plug socket in one of the galleries: " Plug hole designed by Hans Plug ( b. 1908 )" which remained for a full year – to the great annoyance of a cleaner who had to use a hefty extension lead for 12 months so as not to damage the exhibit.

On 19 December, Hans Blix reported before the United Nations and stated in regards to Iraq's 7 December report ( unedited version ): " During the period 1991 – 1998, Iraq submitted many declarations called full, final and complete.

* Hans von Herwarth, German diplomat, providing the Allies with information prior to and during World War II, 2nd degree Mischling, later ranged with full Aryans

The conductor of the premiere, Hans Richter, received a copy of the full score only on the eve of the first orchestral rehearsal.

Following the decision by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission ( SCCRC ) to refer the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi back for a second appeal against conviction, Dr Hans Köchler, UN-appointed international observer at the Lockerbie trial, wrote on 4 July 2007 to Malloch Brown reiterating his call for a " full and independent public inquiry of the Lockerbie case ".

The concept is a full ' fiction ' in the sense to be found in Hans Vaihinger's ' philosophy of " as if "'.

On the morning of August 24, 1939, he visited the Third Reich diplomat Hans von Herwarth and received the full content of the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed the day before.

Abstract expressionist artist Hans Hofmann began lecturing there in 1938, eventually retiring from teaching in 1958 to paint full time.

In October 2011 it was reported that Bischoff had taken over Germania's charter partner Flynext ( in full, Flynext Luftverkehrs GmbH ) from the Nuremberg-based regional airline entrepreneur Hans Rudolf Wöhrl, Flynext having been set up earlier that year and operating two Airbus A319s on a wet-lease basis for Germania.

The chronicle was first published in full in 1849-54 by Hans Ferdinand Massmann, whose work has been described as an " editionsphilologischer Amoklauf " ( an editorial philological running amuck ), though it does present an impressive collection of analogues.

Hans announces that he will take full responsibility.