The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Ungerer, Tomi

The Three Robbers

40 pp. | Phaidon | February, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7148-4877-8 $16.95
Reissue (1962, Atheneum)

(2) K-3 Three robbers in high black hats and black capes walk the roads in the dark of night "searching for victims." Everyone trembles and panics--until Tiffany comes along. Original, arresting, entertaining, beautiful, big, and wonderful; words are inadequate to convey the effect of Ungerer's use of color--bold black figures against an intense deep-blue background, with brilliant reds, yellows, and greens for dramatic highlights.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: June, 1962