'Password Emil!' Emil is excited to be taking the train on his own for the first time. He doesn't like the look of his fellow passenger, the man in the bowler hat. Emil will just have to keep his wits about himand his money in his pocket. But Emil falls asleepand when he wakes up the man in the bowler hat is gone - and so is the money! Emil is determined to get it back. He teams up with a gang of youngdetectives and so begins a hair-raising chase across Berlin to catch the dirty rotten thief...
This book was first published in English in 1931. That was a really long time ago! And yet some parts of it are really endearing - the lovely language, the politeness of the Emil, the way the kids all went up and down the street.
ReplyDeleteYet, it had aged a lot too. Clothes, cost of things, and the language.
Some things I found really annoying - the chapter that described his dream as he slept was silly. Also that fact that the author Kastner, wrote himself into the story. Not something that endears me to him.