The Parent Trap

Author(s): Erich Kästner

Junior Fiction

It's the oddest of all odd things, when two girls who have never met before suddenly stand before each other at summer camp - and discover that they're the spitting image of each other. Louise is from Vienna and has long, curly locks; Lottie is from Munich and wears her hair in two severe plaits - but that's truly the only difference between them. Louise and Lottie decide to discover the secret behind their similarity: when the holiday is over, Louise returns to Munich as Lottie, and Lottie to Vienna as Louise.


Product Information

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.

General Fields

  • : 9781782690559
  • : Pushkin Press, Limited
  • : Pushkin Children's Books
  • : 01 March 2015
  • : 01 March 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Erich Kästner
  • : Paperback
  • : Walter Trier