by Erich Kästner · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582541535
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«Emil and the Detectives» is the adapted children's novel by Erich Kästner, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Emil travels alone to the big city to visit his grandmother and carry money from his mother. On the train, a stranger robs him and Emil decides to follow him. With a group of boys who become detectives and a bellboy, Emil tries to recover the money in a chase full of mix-ups through the city.
It belongs to the Longman Classics collection (Stage 3), with a vocabulary of 1300 words. It is an abridged and simplified edition by E. M. Attwood and D. K. Swan, with illustrations by Madeleine Baker.
Graded reader for English students; due to its level (Stage 3) and youthful tone, suitable for young and teenage readers.
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.
