# Erich Kästner's best-known books

From Emil and the Detectives to Fabian: Kästner's children's classics and his books for adults.

- 8 votes · 14 items
- Sep 1, 2024 · eselsohr_stuttgart
- https://even.best/en/l/3230/erich-kastner-s-best-known-books

## Top 14

1. **Emil and the Detectives** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1929. His first and most successful children's book, translated into 59 languages.
2. **Lottie and Lisa** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1949. Twin sisters swap places.
3. **The Flying Classroom** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1933. Christmas at a boarding school.
4. **Dot and Anton** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1931. A rich girl and a poor boy become friends.
5. **Emil and the Three Twins** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1934. The sequel by the Baltic Sea.
6. **Doctor Erich Kästner's Lyrical Medicine Chest** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1936. Poems as medicine for every situation.
7. **Till Eulenspiegel** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1938. The trickster's pranks, retold for children.
8. **The Animals' Conference** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1949. The animals take peace into their own hands.
9. **Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1931. Berlin at the end of the Weimar Republic; burned by the Nazis.
10. **The 35th of May** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1931. A ride to the South Seas on a talking horse.
11. **Three Men in the Snow** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1934. A mistaken-identity comedy in a grand hotel.
12. **When I Was a Little Boy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1957. Memories of his childhood in Dresden.
13. **Herz auf Taille** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1928. His first collection of poems.
14. **The Little Man** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1963. The smallest circus performer in the world.

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