Spades travels to America
Pik travels to America is “A very unbelievable story about a squirrel” by Franz Werner Schmidt (1888–1930), a youth novel that was first published in 1927 by Franz Schneider.
In later editions, the novel, subtitled only as "A funny ship story", is illustrated in most editions by Hans G. Meile .
content
In spades travels to America is about a squirrel called Pik and its owner, living with his aunt not well-heeled boys Ben. When Pik is stolen by Ben's friend Terry, a child from a wealthy family, and taken on a cruise to America, Ben follows him as a stowaway on the ocean liner, but is discovered and forced to do kitchen work on the cruiser. Ben experiences further humiliations. But finally, a friendly relationship develops with the supercargo Wöhler and Ben's goal to get back spades is within reach.
effect
The book has not been reprinted since 1959. Nevertheless, Pik travels to America was one of the books that inspired Wolfgang Herrndorf to write his best-selling novel Tschick around 2004 . The book is also mentioned in Herrndorf's debut novel In Plüschgewittern as the protagonist's absolute favorite book, which perfectly reflects his attitude towards life as a child.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ from January 31, 2011 - In conversation: Wolfgang Herrndorf, “When did it“ Tschick ”, Herr Herrndorf?” , Accessed on August 11, 2015
- ↑ Wolfgang Herrndorf: In Plush Thunderstorms. Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 2014, ISBN 978-3-644-51351-8 ( limited preview in the Google book search).