Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (1865) is a book by Mary Mapes Dodge. It is about a Dutch boy who enters an ice skating race.

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  Tourism statue in Madurodam, Netherlands, of the nameless boy plugging a dike

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  Tourism monument in Spaarndam, created in 1950, which reads: "Dedicated to our youth to honor the boy who symbolizes the perpetual struggle of Holland against the water"

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  Statue in Harlingen, originally created in 1960 for a Bert Haanstra film, then donated to Harlingen