Luise has ringlets.Lottie has braids. Apartfrom that they look exactlythe same. But they have neverset eyes on each other before.When the two girls meetat a summer camp anddiscover the secret behindtheir similarity, they decideto switch places. Luise willgo home as Lottie, and Lottie as Luise. Everyoneis fooled (apart from thedog) and the plan seems tobe working – until a beautifulyoung woman sets her sightson Luise’s father. Will thegirls come clean in orderto avert disaster?Funny, moving, affectionateand improbable, The Parent Trap has twice been adaptedfor film, and endures asone of the great classicsof children’s literature.
Over de auteur
Walter Trier was born in Prague in 1890, but moved to Berlin in 1910. An acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator, he collaborated with Kästner on more than a dozen children’s books and produced covers for Lilliput and The New Yorker, among others. He fled Germany in 1936, and eventually settled in Canada, where he died in 1951.