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    Title
    Burglar Bill
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Allan Ahlberg, Illustrated by Janet Ahlberg
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 32
    Width: 204 mm
    Height: 262 mm
    Thickness: 3 mm
    Weight: 138 g
    Audience
    Children/juvenile
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780140503012
    ISBN 10: 0140503013
    Classifications
    BICMainSubject: YBC
    Dewey: 823.914
    LC classification: PZ7.A2689
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: Y1.3
    Dewey: E
    BICMainSubject: YFB
    BISAC category code: JUV000000
    Edition statement
    Reissue
    Illustrations note
    colour illustrations
    Publisher
    Penguin Books Ltd
    Imprint name
    Puffin Books
    Publication date
    30 September 1999
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Biographical note
    Janet and Allan Ahlberg created some of the world's most popular picture books, including Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Christmas Postman both winners of Greenaway Medals, and The Baby's Catalogue, inspired by their daughter Jessica. Janet died in 1994 and Allan, a former teacher, now lives in London.
    Review text
    Bill is a benign sort of burglar, stealing only what he uses - a toothbrush here, a can of beans there, the fish and chips and tea he has every night for supper. Then Bill takes home a big brown box with little holes in it, and finds that he's stuck with a baby. But - this being one of those disingenuous British bits of whimsy - that very night Bill is burgled by the baby's mother, Burglar Betty (a red-haired, high-heeled "widow lady"), and before you can say "snitch" the three are a family, with Bill and Betty returning all their loot and Bill going to work in a bakery. With Janet Ahlberg's off-hand visual jokes, it's a mildly amusing diversion of its funny-paper kind. (Kirkus Reviews)
    Main description
    Living in a house full of stolen goods, Burglar Bill goes out every night to steal some more, until his own house is burglarized by Burglar Betty