by Erich Kästner · Vintage Children's Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099572848
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«Emil and the Detectives» is Erich Kästner's children's and young adult mystery novel, published by Vintage Children's Classics in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Emil Tischbein, a boy travelling alone for the first time by train to his grandmother's house in Berlin, has all his money stolen by a mysterious passenger. Alert and determined to get it back, he leads a group of boys his age who become makeshift detectives and chase him across the city. A chase full of ingenuity, teamwork and courage in which young readers discover how a group of children can outwit an adult thief.
Vintage Children's Classics is a collection that revives children's classics. The edition combines the story with supplementary material for young readers.
Ideal for readers aged 9 and up who want to approach a classic of adventure and mystery with child protagonists.
Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography When I Was a Little Boy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in eight separate years.
