Mayer, M. (1987). The Pied Piper of Hamelin. NY,NY: Macmillan ISBN0027653617
Author: Mercer Mayer
Author Website: www.mercermayer.com/
Illustrator: Mercer Mayer
Illustrator Website: www.mercermayer.com/
Media Used: Pen and Ink with color
Publisher: Macmillan
Year of Publication: 1987
ISBN: 0027653617
Annotation: The piper promises to get rid of the rats. The mayor offers a reward to complete the task. When the mayor refuses to pay the piper plays his magic on the town’s children and they follow him away.
Personal Reaction: The illustrations make this old verse come alive with action and life. The characters are bold like the greedy mayor and the scary rats. This title would be good to use in literature classes for a more modern reader and in creative writing classes to illustrate different storytelling techniques.
Illustration: The illustrations are full of action but also simple. The picture of the piper leading the rats away has the piper’s cape large and flowing and more rats than one can count set against the simple outline of the town buildings. The full page illustration of the piper getting in the mayor’s face over non-payment relays all the tension of the moment and in the townspeople’s faces.
Use of Media: The colorful line drawings take this tale to a good book for story hour and to demonstrate for older readers how to remake an old story into a new and updated version for a different generation of readers.
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