Child's Play

Review of Twenty-Four Robbers

“NOT last night, but the night before…twenty-four robbers came a knocking at my door…”
Can you remember any more of this playground rhyme? We couldn’t but Audrey Wood supplies the rest of the verse, with vivid illustrations, lots of hot peppers and an ending that shows that sharing is better then stealing; as the robbers turn out to be not quite the baddies they at first appear.

Evening Echo/Irish Examiner. 1st December 2005

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