He announces to Luke that Emma has to be removed. After the commotion has died down, the baby is adopted by the islanders and is named Jim Button.Īs Jim grows up, the King begins to worry that the island is too small and there won't be enough space for Jim to live on once he's an adult. To their immense surprise, there's a black baby inside. After a futile search for the addressee among Morrowland's few inhabitants, they open the package. One day, the postman – who has to come by ship – drops off a package with a nearly illegible address for a Mrs. The story begins on a tiny island called Morrowland (original German: Lummerland, a play on Nimmerland, the German translation of Neverland), which has just enough space for a small palace, a train station and rails all around the island, a grocery store, a small house, a king, two subjects, a locomotive named Emma, and a locomotive engineer by the name of Luke (Lukas) (who, as railway civil servant, is not a subject). Plot Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver Initially, over a dozen publishers had rejected the book prior to publication. The success led to thirty-four translations into other languages and the sequel Jim Button and the Wild 13 ( Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13).Įnde did not see his book as a children's book, but just wrote it for himself. It is one of the most successful German language children's books of the postwar era. The book was published in 1960, and received the German Young Literature Prize in 1961. The story begins and ends on the small fictional island of Morrowland ( Lummerland). The main characters are Emma the steam locomotive, her driver Luke ( Lukas) and the young accomplice Jim Button ( Jim Knopf) who together go on an adventure. Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (German: Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer) is a children's novel written by Michael Ende.
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