Us Three from Number 4
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Forget Bullerby – here comes Raven Street! As soon as Wenzel claps eyes on the brightly painted apartment building in a little side street of the big city, his heart starts pounding in his chest like a space-hopper. There’s a whiff of garlic hanging in the air and a hint of coffee and chips. All in all the place seems “a first-rate Wenzel-house" — four floors and a roof turret like an oversized witch’s hat. What does it matter that the building has seen better days? Its undiscovered nooks and crannies are chock-a-block with wonderful surprises: you can pitch a tent on the roof terrace, send letters through a pneumatic tube in the old fireplace or dine al fresco on the scaffolding. But the best thing about Number 4 is of course the children living there, because without Jorge, Helma and the others, the house — upstairs and down, inside and out — wouldn’t be half as much fun...
a fun and family-friendly story, setting out the charms of the city over twelve chapters
Christian Tielmann was born in 1971 in Wuppertal. He studied Philosophy and German at Hamburg and Freiburg. Today he lives in Detmold. He has been writing books for children, young adults, and adults since 1999.
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Forget Bullerby – here comes Raven Street! As soon as Wenzel claps eyes on the brightly painted apartment building in a little side street of the big city, his heart starts pounding in his chest like a space-hopper. There’s a whiff of garlic hanging in the air and a hint of coffee and chips. All in all the place seems “a first-rate Wenzel-house" — four floors and a roof turret like an oversized witch’s hat. What does it matter that the building has seen better days? Its undiscovered nooks and crannies are chock-a-block with wonderful surprises: you can pitch a tent on the roof terrace, send letters through a pneumatic tube in the old fireplace or dine al fresco on the scaffolding. But the best thing about Number 4 is of course the children living there, because without Jorge, Helma and the others, the house — upstairs and down, inside and out — wouldn’t be half as much fun...
a fun and family-friendly story, setting out the charms of the city over twelve chapters