Cops and Robbers

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Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments This is beautifully written and catchy children’s book. The verse flows well and this traditional cops and robbers story is entertaining. Will this gang of robbers who are terrorising London ruin Christmas or can the upstanding Officer Pugh save the day? As well as the fun story and the lyrical verse, the numerous illustrations are excellent and an integral part of the story, make sure to keep your eye on them towards the end! From the heart-racing opening scene at the petrol station to the explosive conclusion, Cop and Robber is a gripping middle-grade novel that delivers powerful action scenes and complex questions about family and loyalty . . . If you loved the Alex Rider or Conspiracy 365 series, this is right up your alley. With electrifying action and brilliant characters, Cop and Robber is a stellar middle-grade novel for ages 10+. urn:lcp:copsrobbers00ahlb:epub:81149a5d-5c1f-4cb2-8ff7-471947d56c4a Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier copsrobbers00ahlb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2x35z73t Isbn 0688801781 Lccn 78005354 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL4718553M Openlibrary_edition

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. External-identifier One of the scripts that he worked on in the early seventies was The New Centurions. I suspect that it might have influenced him in writing this story. That and the fact that by the early seventies the N.Y.P.D. was undergoing the trauma of the Knapp Commission/Frank Serpico and people were starting to look at cops in a different light - both good and bad. This book has a Wambaugh flavor to it. There is humor, but it's sardonic and incidental. The story is a heist caper, but this time it's being pulled of by a couple cops who have had enough of their job and the city and just want to get out. The seventies had begun and even though the decade was only a couple of years old one can already see the beginning of the so-called "Me Generation" beginning to take form. London succumbs to a crime wave on Christmas Eve. Officer Pugh uses excessive force to apprehend the conspirators leaving one, identified as Grabber Dan, unconscious after a blow to the head.Draw a plan view of each floor in the police station based on the illustration in the book. What rooms are in the building?

This is an odd Westlake. He attempted to write a more literary novel, giving the main characters an interior reflection repeatedly through out the novel. The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime on Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortunately, the robbers meet their match in brave Officer Pugh who leaps into action and arrests the villains - all except Grandma Swagg who manages to get away. About This Edition ISBN: Ahlberg wrote his first book when he was thirty-seven, after a decade of teaching - a profession that he maintains is "much harder" than being a writer. He says that if he hadn't become a writer, he would have loved to be a soccer player. He was married for many years to fellow children's author Janet Ahlberg, with whom he often worked. Their daughter, Jessica Ahlberg, is also a children's author.

The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime on Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortunately, the robbers meet their match in brave Officer Pugh who leaps into action and arrests the villains - all except Grandma Swagg who manages to get away.

When the two disillusioned policemen start their well-planned heist their scheme starts to unravel. The suspense is unbearable. My nerves couldn’t take it. I had to put the book down and make a cup of tea. Then i read it was written written expressly to be made into a movie and understood why it didnt have the usual Donald E.Westlake quality to it. The London cops are described as being ‘hardworking, brave and true’. Think of other words that describe the qualities of a good police officer.

This is a fabulous favourite – and a brilliantly clever theme for Christmas too, I never would have thought of it. Long before Steven Paige and Ed Robertson mused about what they would do if they had a million dollars, Tom and Joe decided it was a game worth playing; a risk worth taking.