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Author Michael, Manfred (Writer on German elections)

Title Timpetill : a story for children / Manfred Michael ; illustrated by Richard Kennedy
Published London : Oxford University Press, 1951
Oxford U.P., 1951

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 MELB SPCBC  819 Michae Man/Tas  LIB USE ONLY
 MELB SPCBC  819 Michae Man/Tas  LIB USE ONLY
Description 208 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary When the grown-ups of the little Swiss town of Timpetill become exasperated with the rowdiness and mischief of the children, they leave them alone in the town to teach them a lesson. At first the children ran wild, but then a group of them set about planning and organizing the others to set things straight
Notes Originally published: Zurich : Corrodi, 1937
Translated from the German by R.P. Aston
Audience For children
Subject Gangs -- Juvenile fiction.
Juvenile delinquents -- Juvenile fiction.
Self-reliance -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Aston, R. P
Kennedy, Richard, 1910-1989.