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Review

This magnificent picture book--originally published in Australia--is as tall and creepy as illustrator Drahos Zak's personification of the Pied Piper himself. "Hamelin Town was a town divided. / Rats and men lived side by side.

/ And where the difference truly lay / Some say was undecided!" begins Robert Holden's poetic retelling of the 13th-century German tale.

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The town of Hamelin is infested by rats--rats biting babies, chasing dogs, pillaging food supplies, and worse. Enough is enough: "The crowd grew angry, the crowd got mad. / They vowed they would give up all that they had. / Their most treasured possessions, the town's greatest riches, / To remove all the rats--they'd even use witches!" The next thing they know, the Pied Piper arrives--not a witch, but a musician--piping a captivating, cheese-promising tune that disarms the rats and lures them out of town.

When it's time to literally pay the Piper for the rat eradication, however, the townspeople, unkind and ratlik