The Crown Snatchers [SEP] illustrator
The Crown Snatchers
The Crown Snatchers is a self-described "superstorybook" written by German authors F. K. Waechter and . It is the English translation of Die Kronenklauer, which was first published in 1972, by Rowohlt Verlag in Germany. Two years later, Pantheon Books and Random House of Canada, Ltd. published the English translation in the United States and Canada, respectively.
The book follows the adventures of three young children – Robert, Joanna, and Moritz – who run afoul of the local tyrant, King Fatback
(front cover illustrator).
- 1986, UK, Methuen, , Pub date Nov 1986, mass market paperback.
- 1987, USA, Bantam Books, , Pub date Apr 1987, mass market paperback.
- 1990, USA, Bantam Books, , Pub date Nov 1990, mass market paperback. Tom Canty (front cover illustrator).
- 1994, USA, Bantam, , Pub date Sep 1994, hardcover. Gary A. Lippincott (illustrator).
- 1997, USA, Easton