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Informationen zum Autor Erich Kästner was born in Dresden in 1899. He began his career as a journalist for the New Leipzig newspaper in 1922, but moved to Berlin in 1927 to begin working as a freelance journalist and theatre critic. In 1929 he published his first book for children, Emil and the Detectives , which has since been translated into 60 languages, achieving international recognition and selling millions of copies around the world. He subsequently published both Dot and Anton and The Flying Classroom , before turning to adult fiction with his 1931 satire Going to the Dogs. After the Nazis took power in Germany, Kästner's books were burnt on Berlin's Opera Square and over the period of 1937-42 he faced repeated arrest and interrogation by the Gestapo, resulting in his blacklisting and exclusion from the writers' guild. After the end of World War II, Kästner moved to Munich and published The Parent Trap , later adapted into a hit film by Walt Disney. In 1957 he received the Georg Büchner Prize and, later, the Order of Merit and the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for his contribution to children's literature. Kästner died in Munich in 1974. Walter Trier was born in Prague in 1890, but moved to Berlin in 1910. An acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator, he collaborated with Kästner on more than a dozen children's books and produced covers for Lilliput and The New Yorker , among others. He fled Germany in 1936, and eventually settled in Canada, where he died in 1951. Klappentext "Gadzooks!' said Dot ... 'The things that boy can do!'"Dot loves play-acting, dressing up her pet dachshund Piefke and making up words like 'splentastic'. Her best friend is Anton, who lives in a little apartment and looks after his mother. They share a secret - every night, when their parents think they are asleep, they sell matches and shoelaces on the streets of Berlin with Dot's grumpy governess. But why?The answers involve a villain called 'Robert the Devil', a club-wielding maid, a wobbly tooth, a pair of silver shoes and a policeman dancing the tango, as Dot and Anton get into all sorts of scrapes and even solve a crime in this delightful, touching and hilarious adventure story.The funny, heart-warming story of two young comrades-in-arms, by the author of Emil and the Detectives Zusammenfassung The funny! heart-warming story of two young comrades-in-arms! by the author of Emil and the Detectives ...
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"An unlikely secret friendship leads to a scotched burglary and generous quantities of just deserts in this freshly translated caper from the author of Emil and the Detectives. . . First published in 1931 and last available in English in 1973, the tale is presented here in handsome packaging with its original fluent line drawings, and it wears its age reasonably well. . . A minor classic featuring a pair of intrepid protagonists, a comically suspenseful climax, and a mildly caricatured adult cast." - Kirkus Reviews
"Walter Trier's deceptively innocent drawings are as classic as Kästner's words; I never tire of them." - Quentin Blake
"Groundbreaking... quite remarkable. . . My favourite book as a child... funny, exciting and very atmospheric." - Michael Rosen on Emil
"A little masterpiece... Read it and you will be happy." - Maurice Sendak on Emil
"Marvellous'; 'A great political story: democracy in action." - Philip Pullman on Emil (in the Independent 's 'The 50 books every child should read')
