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2011 British children's novel

For other uses, see Pied Piper (disambiguation) and Pied Piper of Hamelin (disambiguation).

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo, and illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark.

It was originally published in Great Britain by Walker Books in 2011. Morpurgo's interpretation of the classic tale encompasses a whole range of social priorities that will ultimately benefit the whole town.

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According to Morpurgo, "if you don’t look at equality and fairness, we'll never put things right; it does mean sharing more, which we are not very good at doing".^[1]

Synopsis

A tall orphan boy with a crutch narrates this version of the well-known story.

He starts the story off by describing the terrible conditions of life for the orphaned and abandoned children in Hamelin. He explains how they are subjected to scavenging for food, while the "rich and the greedy live like ki