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by Erich Kästner, Walter Trier, J.D. Stahl, Maurice Sendak
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Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 10 years ago
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...
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 10 years ago
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 ...
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 10 years ago
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 ...
Anfenwick
Anfenwick rated it 11 years ago
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.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
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 ...
Deirdre
Deirdre rated it 12 years ago
Just wanted to say a few words in favor of the new translation -- I thought it was great, actually -- much more colloquial and fluid, and I didn't at all mind the "americanization" of the proper names. I also thought that the translator's note, and the intro by [a:Maurice Sendak|4489|Maurice Sendak|...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 15 years ago
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 a satisfying ending.BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Play - October 17, 200960 minutes @ 128 kbps - 44.1 KHz - mp3 - msmysteryDramatisation by Katie Hims of the comic children's...
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