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Synopsis
EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES by Erich Kastner has been in print ever since it was first published in 1928.
Young Emil is robbed on his first real railway journey of money entrusted to him by his hard-working mother for the relatives he is to stay with in Berlin. A gang of boys about his own age come to his aid, and a thrilling adventure full of surprises ensues as they use their wits to devise a wonderfully simple but practical trick to capture the thief.
With every detail clearly drawn - from the tiresome business of getting into best clothes for the journey, down to the final anxiety as to what shall be done with a gloriously unexpected reward - this is a story all young readers will enjoy.
Reissued in the 'A Puffin Book' series of children's modern classics.
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"This is a well-presented edition of a real classic, and I hope it helps it find the new audience it deserves" (The Bookbag)
"Both boys - me in 1955, my son in 1996 - seemed to be drawn into this story in some way beyond the usual...The main pleasure of the book is in the way in which it plays to the fantasy of omnipotence in a child: that a team of kids could really organise themselves into a team of detectives and catch a thief" (Michael Rosen Guardian)
"A great political story: democracy in action" (Philip Pullman Ten books every Year 7 child should read)
"The perfect introduction to the world of fictional crime detection" (Independent)
"Emil is a wonder... the book had, and still has, the effect of making me feel part of Emil's little gang of boys... Emil and the Detectives is a little masterpiece... Read it and you will be happy" (Maurice Sendak)
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Join Emil's gang - a team of detective children, in this captivating mini-masterpiece of children's writing
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0141362626
- ISBN 13 9780141362625
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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