The Parent Trap
Illustrations by Walter Trier
The book behind the world-famous film - in a new translation by Anthea Bell
'Walter Trier's deceptively innocent drawings are as classic as Kästner'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.
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The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Newly translated from the German by Anthea Bell, an award-winning translator who, after studying English at Oxford, 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.
144pp
Published 06/11/2014
ISBN 9781782690559
Pushkin Children’s Special Paperback
£7.99
