Curso para raterillos (Profesor Randa. Academia de Truhanes / Master Crook's. Crime Academy)

Master Crook's Crime Academy

by Terry Deary

After their initial course material at their unusual academy where students learn to steal from the rich in order to give to the poor, Smiff and Alice are given the task of burglarizing the home of the mayor, one of the richest of the city's citizens.

Genres: Childrens

214 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29. Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history. Books in the series have been widely translated into other languages and imitated.

A cartoon series has been made of the series of books and was shown on CiTV for a period in 2002.

The first series of a live-action comedy sketch show of the same name was shown on CBBC in 2009 and a second series is due.

Terry is also known widely throughout children and adult reading groups alike for his True Stories series (see below for series list).

He received an Honorary Doctorate of Education from the University of Sunderland in 2000. His numerous accolades also include the Blue Peter "Best Nonfiction Author of the Century" Award in the U.K.

-Wikipedia

Reviews

[Sean Harding · Rating 3 out of 5]

Somewhat interesting story, but the design of the book was irritating, with some of the font choices making the writing very difficult to read which took away from the actual book.

[Neville Ridley-smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Being a reasonable fan of Horrible Histories, I was intrigued to see how Terry Deary would handle fiction. Turns out, quite well. Funnily enough, as I was reading this, I couldn't help but think of another Terry who writes funny fantasy - ie Pratchett, and specifically the city watch books. This has a similar flavour. Nowhere near as funny but mildly amusing. There were some absolutely groan worthy puns. He's written funnier things in Horrible Histories. Other than that, the plot and pacing were decent. I'll probably read the others.

[Jazz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good one!

[LucyRej čte · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Flickalooya]

Edward rates this 4 stars.