by Erich Kästner, Rod Smith · Pearson ESL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582426993
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«Emil and the Detectives» is the mystery novel by Erich Kästner and Rod Smith, published by Pearson ESL in paperback (51 pages, in English).
Emil travels by train to his grandmother's house with the money his mother sends him. He pins it inside his pocket for safety, but during the journey the money disappears. With the help of some children he has just met, Emil chases the thieves through the city to recover what was stolen.
The original work, Emil und die Detektive, was published in 1929 as the first installment of the Emil series. This edition belongs to the Penguin Readers collection, level 3.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language and those interested in level 3 graded readers; also suitable for young 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.
