The Three Robbers
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (581 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0714848778 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 40 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Great book. High quality printing and construction. This will be an heirloom book for my grandson.The moral is grey, like the real world. It gets the child thinking about how people are not all good or all bad. Everyone's got a little bit of both in them.. Favorite Book for Bed This is my go to for a quick book before bed. Great, simple pictures. A little more depth than the average children's book.. Nancy Ellen said A favorite from my childhood. I was so happy this book was still in print, as it was a favorite of mine and my siblings growing up. I love the dark colors and the darkness of the story, as it details how the robbers hold up carriages (with one using a blunderbuss, which always brings a smile to my face). I read that someone called it pro-socialist but I never took it like that when I was a kid and I don't think my daughter is getting that message either. This is simply the st
In 1990, Sendak wrote: ''Some adults look at Ungerer's work, then rush to drag out the bromide that explains how easy it is to make a picture book: 'Just a handful of sentences and a lot of blazing pictures.' These critics fail to see that a successful picture book is a visual poem.'' In only 300 words and 20 unforgettable pictures, Ungerer creates an entertaining, wry modern morality tale in which good overcomes evil in the end.Ungerer's little blonde orphan Tiffany is far from helpless -- she is not afraid of the robbers and instead reforms them, converting their evil into
Tomi Ungerer now divides his time between his farm in Ireland, near the ocean that he loves, and Strasbourg, the city of his birth, where a museum dedicated to his work opened in late 2007.Tomi Ungerer has said that while many people can see only good and evil, he is particularly interested in the no-man s land between the two, as this is the most interesting place to him, where lessons may be learned. He quickly found success as an illust
. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Ages 5-8. From Publishers Weekly "One bitter, black night," three ferocious highwaymen meet their match in a spunky orphan named Tiffany; Ungerer's bold, fanciful artwork, rendered primarily in black and deep blue tones, enliven this cautionary tale of foul deeds transmogrified