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Les Trois Brigands (2007)

by Tomi Ungerer(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

221108964X (ISBN13: 9782211089647)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

L'Ecole des loisirs

review 1: Three sinister robbers who live in a treasure filled castle use a pepper blower, a giant red ax and a blunderbuss to hold up horse-drawn carriages and steal from the passengers. What kind of kid's picture book is this, right?!?! Well, on one particular night, the three robbers stop a carriage and are startled to find that the only valuable thing to plunder is a sweet little girl. And what follows is a heart-warming story of kindness, charity and community.The Three Robbers is a fantastic book! We all especially loved the unique, vintage art style and the minimal color palette consisting of mostly dark blues and shades of black. Well, it's that way until the end, when the story lightens up, and colors come in to the illustrations. You'll just have to read it to see ho... morew that all works out.Both our 7 y/o daughter AND 3 y/o son couldn't get enough of The Three Robbers. Excellent, imaginative writing - although I wished there was more of it. For me, it ended a little abruptly and could possibly have used another paragraph or so to nicely wrap everything up. However, I think that's just me wanting to squeeze some more juice out of a wonderful book.Unfortunately, it seems like this one is a bit hard to find. It's currently out of stock with Amazon (as I write this) but you can buy the book through them from third parties. I was honestly quite surprised - and pleased - to find it at our library and I'll certainly be looking to buy it. If you ever see this gem of a book for sale anywhere, snatch it up and you'll be glad you did! In fact, get us a copy too!
review 2: I could see how this book could scare a young child--the beginning part anyhow. The whole cloaked and dark and sneaky thing. Yeah. That can be scary. It's a nice twist in the ending, though the very end seemed a bit abrupt. A couple of illustrations that caused my eyebrow to raise (a paned window in a cave?), but otherwise I was fine. Not a book I'm in love with, but I ca see it holding its place among picture books. I'd probably do this more in a lap-read than a storytime, unless I was sure I had a group that wouldn't get scared as I did the "scary" parts. less

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