'Walter Trier's deceptively innocent drawings are as classic as
Kastner's words; I never tire of them' Quentin Blake Martin's
school is no ordinary school. There are snowball fights,
kidnappings, cakes, a parachute jump, a mysterious man called
'No-Smoking' who lives in a railway carriage and a play about a
flying classroom. As the Christmas holidays draw near, Martin and
his friends - nervous Uli, cynical Sebastian, Johnny, who was
rescued by a sea captain, and Matthias, who is always hungry
(particularly after a meal) - are preparing for the end-of-term
festivities. But there are surprises, sadness and trouble on the
way - and a secret that changes everything. The Flying Classroom is
a magical, thrilling and bittersweet story about friendship, fun
and being brave when you are at your most scared. (It also features
a calf called Eduard, but you will have to read it to find out
why.) Erich Kastner, writer, poet and journalist, was born in
Dresden in 1899. His first children's book, Emil and the
Detectives, was published in 1929 and has since sold millions of
copies around the world and been translated into around 60
languages. After the Nazis took power in Germany, Kastner's books
were burnt and he was excluded from the writers' guild. He won many
awards, including the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award in
1960. He died in 1974. Walter Trier was born in Prague in 1880. In
1910 he moved to Berlin, where he would later be introduced to
Kastner, and began his career drawing cartoons for the Berliner
Illustrated. He also contributed to the satirical weekly
Simplicissimus, where during the 1920s, despite great personal
risk, he ridiculed Hitler and the Nazi Party in a series of
cartoons. In 1936 he fled to London, where he was involved in
producing anti-Nazi leaflets and political propaganda drawings. He
would go on to have a rich career, producing around 150 covers for
the humorous magazine Lilliput. He died in 1951 in Ontario, Canada.
Anthea Bell is an award-winning translator. Having studied English
at Oxford University, she has had a long and successful career,
translating works from French, German and Danish. She is best known
for her translations of the much-loved Asterix books, Stefan Zweig
and W.G. Sebald.
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