Cops and Robbers

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Look at the police officer’s map and give directions (in another language) to help people move from one place to another. A new nailbiter from the bestselling author of Two Wolves, The Fall and Detention. "Make sure you start this well before bedtime because you wont want to stop." Morris Gleitzman 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.

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-identifierThis is a new Puffin edition of Allan Ahlberg's best-selling Cops and Robbers classic picture book, with a brand new cover! The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime one Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! 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. If your mum was a cop and your dad was a crim who needed your help to commit a crime, would you do it to save him? At what cost? This was my first Donald Westlake and after looking him up, I found he’s written quite a few books and many more under under several pseudonyms. About a dozen of them fall into this “comic crime novels” category which, by modern standards is not comedy; just two real guys behaving in real ways while going through their normal day (and night) shifts.

Gripping and unpredictable, with a hero you won't forget.' John Boyne, author of The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas Look at the list of the things that the robbers took on Christmas Eve (found in the illustration showing the Street Map). Find out the approximate value of each item. What is the total value of the items stolen? The edition I read has this terrible front cover that makes the book out to be a farce rather than a “comic mystery” of its day. Shame that anyone judging a book by its cover would most likely miss this gem. 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.

Think of questions that could be used in an interview with a police officer. Could you invite one to your school?

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Draw a plan view of each floor in the police station based on the illustration in the book. What rooms are in the building? Choose one of the robbers shown in the book (e.g. Grabber Dan, Grandma Swagg) and write a story about a crime they might have committed. My first Westlake novel. I've been told by readers who are fans that this isn't one of his better works. Evidently it began life as a script (I've seen the movie and it isn't too bad) and Westlake novelized it. However being new to his novels this isn't that bad of a read. I see from looking at his entry over on the Internet Movie Database (imdb) Mr. Westlake did a lot of (uncredited) work on scripts. I guess he would polish a script and give it that certain something that made him so popular.