by Erich Kästner · Dressler Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783791530192
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«Das Schwein beim Friseur und andere Geschichten» is a collection of stories by Erich Kästner, published by Dressler Verlag in hardcover (112 pages, in German).
The story that gives the book its title features Berthold, a boy who hates getting his hair cut until his mother takes him to a zoo barbershop where the seats are live animals; he gets the pig grunting in a corner. The book also includes a Sherlock Holmes adventure with a boastful boy, other tales and poems.
1991 edition; the work originally appeared in 1962. Recommended for readers aged 8 and up.
Suitable for reading alone or aloud, for both young and old admirers of Erich Kästner.
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.
