Cops and Robbers

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I can't say that this is a bad book, but all things considered I'm not sure that I would recommend it.

The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime on Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Kicking a Ball; The Baby's Catalogue; Burglar Bill; Each Peach Pear Plum; The One and Only Two Heads; Son of a Gun; The Little Worm Book; Two Wheels Two Heads; Funny Bones; A Pair of Sinners; Happy Families; Peepo! In the Dortmunder books, of course, the protagonists are also ordinary, but that's the joke, given the incredibly complex heists that they carry out. A ballad about a gang of robbers with a Christmas heist in the works, and the brave Officer Pugh who saves the day.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-10-28 20:57:19 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA145520 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Edition 1st American ed.

Officer Pugh uses excessive force to apprehend the conspirators leaving one, identified as Grabber Dan, unconscious after a blow to the head.Fortunately, the robbers meet their match in brave office Pugh who leaps into action and arrests the villains - all except Grandma Swagg who manages to get away. I read this book when I was young and even had a tape with it and would listen to it again and again. His writing earned him three Edgar Awards: the 1968 Best Novel award for God Save the Mark; the 1990 Best Short Story award for "Too Many Crooks"; and the 1991 Best Motion Picture Screenplay award for The Grifters. Here we have two very believable New York City cops, living on Long Island and commuting into work together. I won't give any spoilers in the open here so all I mention can be found in the synopsis or I'll hide it.

It's a little looser and goofier than Westlake's usual stuff, but it's still a heck of a lot of fun. Of course, the mob plans to kill them, and they plan to rip off the mob (in a thinly-justified twist, they don't actually steal the bonds but destroy them, so that they won't have to hold on to anything incriminating). Westlake, however, casually dismisses this possibility, suggesting that our cop robbers will indeed get away with it. He has published over 100 children's books and, with his late wife Janet, created such award winning picture books as EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY POSTMAN - both winners of the Kate Greenaway Medal.We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.

The Ha Ha Bonk Book; Help Your Child to Read; Ten in a Bed; Please Mrs Butler; Daisy Chains; Yum Yum; Playmates; Foldaways; Woof; The Cinderella Show; The Jolly Postman; The Jolly Christmas Postman; The Jolly Pocket Postman; The Clothes Horse and Other Stories; The Mighty Slide; Starting School; Heard it in the Playground; The Bear Nobody Wanted; It was a Dark and Stormy Night; The Giant Baby; Baby Sleeps; Blue Buggy; Doll and Teddy; See the Rabbit; Please Mrs Butler; The Better Brown Stories; The Boyhood of Burglar Bill %%%This is a new Puffin edition of Allan Ahlberg's best-selling Cops and Robbers classic picture book, with a brand new cover! Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Here, the robberies are less complex -- their success largely depends on the fact that they're being carried out by cops, who can get away with things that other people couldn't -- and the ordinariness is presumably to encourage the reader to identify with the protagonists.With electrifying action and brilliant characters, Cop and Robber is a stellar middle-grade novel for ages 10+. Then i read it was written written expressly to be made into a movie and understood why it didnt have the usual Donald E.