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Emil and the Detectives (Red Fox Classics) (Paperback)

by Erich Kastner (Author), Walter Trier (Illustrator)
4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 218 pages
  • Publisher: Red Fox; New edition edition (5 April 2001)
  • ISBN-10: 0099413124
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099413127
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,614 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A reissue of this classic Emil story.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, 20 Feb 2002
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I had to review this to bump up the star rating; so long as it has its original illustrations, this is a classic suspense tale for young readers, in which the atmosphere of pre-war working class Germany is powerfully evoked. Or are today's kids too sophisticated? Suffice it to say that no film (no English language film, anyway) could do this story justice.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Detecting the future, 8 April 2008
This is a subtle and careful book that also is able to make some very good points. The boys in the story live in Nazi Germany before the war breaks out. They are just boys hanging together (in the same class....) and facing a thief that steals but belongs to another world and another class, but not a school class...

Read it with Treblinka and Leningrad and the battle for Berlin 15 years later on the same streets at the back of your mind. Where were Emile and his friends during those days...if they survived that long....see the Eidelwise Piraten resistence movement.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple fun - just like children's games, 2 Aug 2007
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I don't know how many times I have read this book. I read it first when I was about 9 or 10, and though the title has been clearly lodged in my memory, I keep forgetting what the book is about. So I bought a copy though I'm well past being a child.

'Emil and the Detectives' shows what Kastner is all about. The plot is simple, but at the same time well-set, characters are fun and unique, the dialogue quite witty, and the message ever so clear. This is his most practical, simple, and easy-read at best. I also love his 'Flying Classroom' and 'Parent Trap', but this book, while aimed at slightly younger audience, also has the quintessential simplicity and characters we can warm to in big helpings.

The only disappointing thing is that it is perhaps too thin a book for these detectives and Emil.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Its OLDIE but a GOODIE
I had this read to me at school in the 1970s and remembered it recently. I read it to my 8 year old and we laughed and were GRIPPED. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars That is why it is a Classic
As a child, this must have been one of my most favourite books. 30 years on and bored reading the Horrid Henry books to my son, I decided to find this book and read it to my son,... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars read these books, u and yr children wont be able to stop!
One man said: "when people is growing up they through thier childhood out like an old hat". Erich Kastner is the man who has keeped the childhood in himself. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2005 by Elena

5.0 out of 5 stars A First Class Book!
I first read this book in Primary School in the 1950s and when my local library disposed of its' copy in the 1980s I bought it for my son. Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2003 by Lindsay Seagrim-trinder

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, exciting and surprising book.
Emil and the Detectives is about a boy whose mother is a hairdresser. They live in a small village called Neustadt. Read more
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