Emil and the Detectives
by:
Erich Kästner (author)
Rod Smith (author)
Emil is travelling by train to his grandmother's house. He is carrying money to her from his mother. He pins the bag of money to his inside pocket for safety, but his money is stolen. Can Emil and his friends manage to find the thieves? Born in Dresden, Germany in 1899, Erich K stner is most...
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Emil is travelling by train to his grandmother's house. He is carrying money to her from his mother. He pins the bag of money to his inside pocket for safety, but his money is stolen. Can Emil and his friends manage to find the thieves? Born in Dresden, Germany in 1899, Erich K stner is most famous as a children's writer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780582426993 (0582426995)
Publish date: January 22nd 2001
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Pages no: 52
Edition language: English
Series: Emil (#1)
2.5 I'm doing a train display at work and was so excited when I found this title because the first third part of the book takes place on a train. That is until I read it. Oh my gosh--it was so so so boring. By the time it got interesting it was so far along I almost resented it for having taken so l...
2.5I'm doing a train display at work and was so excited when I found this title because the first third part of the book takes place on a train. That is until I read it. Oh my gosh--it was so so so boring. By the time it got interesting it was so far along I almost resented it for having taken so ...
2.5I'm doing a train display at work and was so excited when I found this title because the first third part of the book takes place on a train. That is until I read it. Oh my gosh--it was so so so boring. By the time it got interesting it was so far along I almost resented it for having taken so ...
I'd expected a slightly higher reading age. Emil was fun but I should have tried to plough through it in German for a bit of a challenge.
bookshelves: fraudio, play-dramatisation, mystery-thriller, published-1929, kiddlewinks, adventure, filthy-lucre, germany Read in October, 2009 ** spoiler alert ** It comes across a little dated and probably not palatable for today's streetwise kids but I thought it was a good fun adventure with ...
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