by Erich Kästner, Evelyn Attwood · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582534483
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«Emil and the Detectives» is the children's novel by Erich Kästner and Evelyn Attwood, published by Longman in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Emil Tischbein travels by train to Berlin with his family's savings, but someone steals them during the journey. With the help of a group of boys who act as detectives, Emil organizes a plan to follow the thief through the city streets and recover his money.
Abridged edition included in the New Method Supplementary Readers series, based on the German classic 'Emil und die Detektive' (1929), first installment of Erich Kästner's Emil series.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language and for young readers approaching a classic in simplified form.
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.
