by Erich Kästner · Cecilie Dressler Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783791530154
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«Das fliegende Klassenzimmer» is Erich Kästner's children's novel, published by Cecilie Dressler Verlag in hardcover (173 pages, in German).
The pupils of Kirchberg boarding school and those of the neighboring school play increasingly daring pranks on each other. When the latter steal the dictation notebooks and hold a classmate, the dispute escalates. With warm humor and melancholy, Kästner tells of the adventures, loyalties and small problems of a group of boarding boys in winter.
Novel illustrated by Walter Trier, originally published in 1933; this edition dates from 1995.
Recommended for readers aged 10 and up and for those studying German at an advanced level.
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.
