This book has been graded for interest at 5-9 years.

There are 136 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by New York Review of Books .

Anthea Bellwas awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize (USA) in 2002 for her translation of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz . Her many works of translation from French and German (for which she has received several other awards) include the Nicholas books and, with Derek Hockridge, the entire Asterix the Gaul saga by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Otfried Preussler is one of the most popular writers of all time in Germany. He is now well into his 80s and enjoying a happy retirement.