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The Parent Trap (Paperback)
Erich Kastner; Translated by Anthea Bell; Illustrated by Walter Trier
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R325
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Discovery Miles 2 250
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'Walter Trier's deceptively innocent drawings are as classic as
Kastner's words; I never tire of them' Quentin Blake Luise has
ringlets. Lottie has braids. Apart from that they look exactly the
same. But they are sure that they have never set eyes on each other
in their lives. When the two girls meet at a summer camp and
discover the secret behind their similarity, they decide to switch
places. Everyone is fooled (apart from the dog) and, despite a few
mistakes and misadventures, everything goes to plan for Luise as
Lottie and Lottie as Luise - until their father meets a young,
beautiful woman and things start to unravel... Funny, moving,
affectionate and improbable, The Parent Trap has twice been adapted
for film - but the book remains one of the great classics of German
children's literature. 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.
'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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Dot and Anton (Paperback)
Erich Kastner; Translated by Anthea Bell; Illustrated by Walter Trier
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R322
R221
Discovery Miles 2 210
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'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.
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Toys (1922) (Paperback)
Walter Trier; Illustrated by Oskar Seyffert
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R645
Discovery Miles 6 450
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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Toys (1922) (Hardcover)
Walter Trier; Illustrated by Oskar Seyffert
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R1,047
Discovery Miles 10 470
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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Toys (1922) (Paperback)
Walter Trier; Illustrated by Oskar Seyffert
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R595
Discovery Miles 5 950
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