Emil and the detectives - Erich Kästner

A 1929 novel, very old, a classic: The story begins in the fictional town called Neudstadt in Germany, the town of our main character: Emil Tischbein. His mother sends him to Berlin with 6 pounds (that's very lot in the old days) to give to his grandmother, on the journey, Emil becomes very careful with the money and uses a needle to pin his money into his jacket. When he's on a train, a bowler hat man, called Grundeis gives him a slab of chocolate which makes him fall asleep and dream about nightmares. When he wakes up, he finds out that his money is gone and Grundeis is nowhere to be found. Soon, he gets of the train and catches signs of Grundeis, he starts following his trails, like a real detective. He doesn't have the guts to call the police, since in Neudstadt, a policeman had seen him vandalizing a statue, so he feels like he himself as a criminal. Suddenly, a boy named Gustav with his motor horn who agrees to help Emil. Gustav calls the gang and they assemble, becoming "The Detectives", willing to retrieve Emil's money.
The book was unquestionably good, due to the characters were so real and alive. Erich has characterized Emil so good that we can overlook and see through Emil's mind and view, unlike other children literature, the people in Berlin were well characterized with hard characters, not in a sanity world for children, the morals are hard to see and are prevented from being to obvious, readers have to figure the morals through characters' deeds, e.g: Little Tuesday, who keeps promise, has taught me to become a promise caretaker. Even adults can find something within this marvelous adventure book.
Emil received positive affections from public in Germany, it was Erich major success in 1945, because it was his first book to escape from Nazi Censorship. The book was made cover in a German Stamp.