The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Russell Brand's Trickster Tales

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Russell Brand's Trickster Tales

By Russell Brand

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With this first book in Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales series, the famed comedian, actor, and bestselling author delivers a hilarious retelling of an old fairytale favorite that will appeal to adults and children alike.

Once upon a time, long ago, in a time that seemed, to those present, exactly like now except their teeth weren’t so clean and more things were wooden, there was a town called Hamelin. The people of Hamelin were a pompous bunch who loved themselves and their town so much that if it were possible they would have spent all day zipped up in a space suit smelling their own farts. But space suits hadn’t been invented yet so they couldn’t.

Then one day without warning a gang of rats bowled into the town and began causing a right rumpus…

So begins Russell Brand’s wildly funny and surprisingly wise retelling of the classic tale The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Whether you’re a kid or a grown-up kid, you’ll be chuckling the whole way through this zany story that bypasses Brand’s more adult humor for the outrageous, the madcap, and the just plain silly.

Maybe you’ve heard about the Pied Piper before, with his strange music and those pompous townspeople and pesky rats. Or maybe you haven’t. But one thing is for sure: you’ve never heard it quite like this.
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 9781782116035
ISBN-10: 1782116036
Published on 10/1/2015
Binding: Paperback

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There was an unknown time that obtains through our imagination which lies a town named Hamelin. The town has extra wooden items than we do now a days and they were also filthy,grubby and stinky. They held many contests but the most important and famed pageant was ' The Most Gorgeous Child Hamelin' one Sam would have never won, not that he ever participated in any. Sam has been a joke to the town and have been bullied for as long as he can remember but his mum loved him with all her heart. The time of the pageant has come this time a gang of rats attacked the town, they were different than any other rats. The town was torn , wrecked and demolished by the rats, at this point there was no hope for a hero. Until a magical man who goes by the name of Pied Piper made a deal to save the town, in the end he saved the town but he thought them a lesson which changed their life style.