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His critics considered this policy to be incompatible with a government accountable to the people. This criticism has never entirely quieted, but every time things get noisy the Court simply brazens it out. Supreme Court Justices; the only claim on the Justices is justice itself. Louis Brandeis began handing his papers over to the University of Louisville, in Kentucky, in , three years before he stepped down from the Court. Frankfurter and Brandeis had been close correspondents. Early in his career, Rehnquist told the legal historian Stanley Katz that he thought there ought to be a requirement that all judicial papers be given to the Library of Congress. Not long afterward, the legal historian Melvin Urofsky, who was researching a book about Johnson v. Santa Clara, a affirmative-action case, happened to be chatting with William Brennan at a party. Cases decided by the Rehnquist Court include Bush v. Gore, one of the most momentous actions ever taken by the Court. In the twenty-first century, the Supreme Court wields far more power than it did in the eighteenth. Is judicial secrecy defensible in an era of judicial supremacy? Fair-minded arguments can be made on both sides. Rehnquist died in In , his papers—nearly nine hundred boxes—went to the Hoover Institution. More than five hundred will remain closed until the last Justice who served with Rehnquist dies. History is patient. But perhaps the time has come to ask, How long is too long to wait? Rarely has an appointment been met with such high expectations. Rarely has a Justice proved so disappointing. During the twenty-five years that Frankfurter taught at Harvard Law School, from to , a conservative Court repeatedly struck down laws aimed at economic reform and regulation, and Frankfurter insisted that, in declaring measures like minimum-wage laws unconstitutional, the Court was overstepping its authority. During the twenty-three years that Frankfurter served on the Court, from to , its most significant judicial activism concerned overturning laws that restricted civil liberties and civil rights. Frankfurter nearly always dissented from these decisions, citing his commitment to judicial restraint. A brilliant liberal scholar, Frankfurter became known, on the Court, as its most implacable conservative, not because his politics changed but because his view of the role of the Court did not. The American Civil Liberties Union—which Frankfurter had helped found—filed an amicus brief in support of the Gobitas family. Frankfurter wrote an 8—1 opinion upholding the mandatory flag salute, citing the principle of judicial restraint. To his outraged friends, he declined to elaborate. He earned a reputation as an annoyance. He lectured his fellow-Justices, as if they were his law- school students. His diaries are even more arrogant and venomous. He proved incapable of forging agreements. Barnette, Jackson wrote an opinion for a 6—3 majority that ruled in favor of the Barnette family. Frankfurter wrote a bitter dissent. Felix Frankfurter may have been the most divisive Justice ever to serve on the Court. The change is sudden, dramatic, and puzzling. It may turn out that a divided Court is the legacy of Felix Frankfurter. But anyone seriously interested in pondering that legacy has got to wonder: Who raided his papers? In , Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. In , he asked one of his clerks, Alexander Bickel, to begin dividing his legal papers, one half to go to the Library of Congress and the other to the Harvard Law School Library. Frankfurter retired from the Court in , after suffering a stroke. Frankfurter hoped that the story of his life might be written by Philip Kurland, a former clerk of his who had become a distinguished constitutional scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. Meanwhile, Frankfurter allowed a reporter, Max Freedman, to edit a collection of letters between himself and F. But Freedman was in no condition to publish: he suffered a stroke that left him unable to write. He moved to Winnipeg and became a recluse. Judicial biography lies at the intersection of two dark alleys: a corner where judicial secrecy meets authorized biography. Rehnquist abandoned the biography. Bickel put him off: he told him to write to Hugo Black. Bickel then attempted to recruit a biographer from among his Yale Law School students. He tapped Richard Danzig, a twenty-five-year-old former Rhodes scholar. Bickel believed—hoped—that the talented Danzig was preparing for a career as a scholar. In February, , Danzig submitted to Bickel a formal request for permission to use the Frankfurter papers at Harvard. Newman took a job teaching at a public school in New York. He was trying to avoid the draft, and he was also eager to make a career as a legal scholar, an outsider attempting to break into a tightly closed and fiercely guarded world. Kluger consulted Bickel, who told him to turn Newman down. In October, , Kluger asked Freund and Bickel whether he could see the Harvard papers for a book he was writing about Brown v. Board of Education. Unlike the young and inexperienced Newman, Kluger had a contract with Knopf, and enclosed a letter from its editor-in-chief, Robert Gottlieb. Freund and Bickel agreed to grant Kluger permission to see the files relating to Brown v. Nixon had a terrible record with nominations to the Court. In , he had nominated Clement Haynsworth, a federal judge from South Carolina. The Senate voted down the nomination, the first time that had happened since In , Nixon nominated another Southern judge, G. Harrold Carswell; he was voted down, too. Both judges had checkered records on segregation. In September and October of , Nixon and Mitchell debated possible nominees. Not a day. Did he? Byrd was a ploy. In December, on the eve of the Senate vote, the Newsweek reporter Robert Shogan released a memo that Rehnquist had written to Jackson in Shogan got the memo from Kurland when he called to interview him and Kurland riffled through the Jackson papers in his office and mentioned that he had an interesting memo. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed. On December 10, , a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee threatened to continue the hearings after the holiday. Nixon responded by calling for a special session. In , two legal scholars, Brad Snyder and John Q. Barrett, published a fascinating law-review article in which they attempted to reconstruct that letter. Barrett Prettyman, another of his former clerks, to see what they made of it. No one knows who had it. In August, scholars using the Frankfurter papers at the Library of Congress began reporting to the staff that a great number of documents were missing. At first, the staff at the library assumed that the missing items had been misfiled, but in November, , the library checked the entire collection against the finding aid as best it could. The missing documents appeared to have been carefully chosen: they included the most significant items in the collection. The library called the F. The special agent in charge suspected that the thief was a scholar, and the F. In March, , an F. He asked Parrish who else was sitting at his table in the Reading Room when he used the papers. Parrish told the F. On March 22, , an F. All three told me they were never questioned. Except for the part about being a lawyer, this description fits only Newman. The report was forwarded to the Justice Department on August 10, And then there was a leak. Anderson, who had an office on the ninth floor of a building on K Street, was the most influential political columnist in the country. They scrambled for stories. Anderson hated Nixon, and Nixon hated Anderson. The Great Paper Caper by Oliver Jeffers

I often find that I can fill up these rev Oliver Jeffers is an odd duck. Oliver Jeffers is, as I have said before, an odd duck. The Great Paper Caper is proof enough of that. There is a mystery lurking in these woods. It started small enough. Local forest denizens hardly even noticed when the first branches of their trees started to disappear. When the trees themselves started to go, however, it was time to do some serious detective work. At long last something was found near a crime scene; a paper airplane. A paper airplane with the paw prints of the local bear all over it. And sure as shooting when the animals check it out they see that the bear has been turning a plethora of wood into paper airplanes in a vain attempt to live up to the paper airplane stardom of his ancestors. After a full confession and an outpouring of sincere regret the bear is sentenced to a replanting of the trees and his fellow animals find a way to help him come to terms with his paper airplane legacy. Stories of industrious lumberjack bears do not initially sound particularly British. Or the red telephone booth into which the other animals climb. Take a closer look at the book, however, and all kinds of tiny slights and thought out whiffs of detail catch the eye. Or, even more subtle, the final image where the bear merrily water a tree, a single bare light bulb glowing in his trailer, not thirty yards away. Going back to the style of the artist, Jeffers has always had a weakness for critters and creatures that toddle about on two thin stick-like legs. He avoided it with the penguin in Lost and Found , which was only right since penguins are meant for waddling, not toddling. Generally it is a look that has suited his small animals and people quite well. So it was strange to look through this book a second time and see that the bear, of all creatures, also sports a pair of legs that resemble nothing so much as a pair of well-spaced dowel rods. An unexpected look, certainly, but one that fits within the rest of the book without any problems. His creations fail with a kind of unceasing certainty that is somewhat reassuring in this crazy madcap universe we live in. As it stands, Jeffers takes the clever middle road and all is well and right with the world. However, there is much to be said for a picture book as thoroughly amusing and enjoyable as this. Purely enjoyment from start to finish. Ages Oct 14, Emily rated it really liked it Shelves: picture-books. A great story and lots of opportunities to use with a class. Older children could do their own version of the court case and put the bear on trial with a jury and judge deciding whether he is guilty or not and what his punishment should be. As the bear is making paper airplanes, this could link to a science experiment where children are create their own plane and measure how far they can go. What the hell is it? Perhaps I should just say what we're all thinking - dickhead. It's a perfect representation, no? Did the editor not notice this. I mean, it's kind of obvious. Is it some sort of unique Australian thing of which I'm unaware? As for the story, The Great Paper Caper introduces the idea of crime to children using animals. Restitution is then demanded which was happily given by planting new trees to replace the ones stolen, and all is forgiven. I feel like I should like this picture book more. Sadly, upon finishing I was just left cold. I'm not sure why. Feb 10, Kathy Davie rated it really liked it Shelves: picture- book , children , mystery. A standalone picture book mystery involving a crime in the forest. My Take Okay, yeah, it's a mystery all right, and perfectly set up for young children. It will require a parent to help interpret the minimal text, though. The graphics are really simple in warm tones and pastels and quite sweet. Do check out the sign the koala is holding The pruned trees are something common in people's yards. Also common is the blame game played by all the animals! Both can make the story more familiar for kids. And a great opportunity for parents to talk about it being wrong to blame people without proof. The investigation itself, using objective third person point-of-view, is pretty funny with the "do not cross" tape, that naughty pig, and no leaf left uninvestigated. The whole process follows the legalities, which can reinforce this for the kids. It's at the end that we learn of Bear's ambitions, and the compassion shown is so sweet. That end will make you smile, as will the practical "punishment" with Bear replacing what he destroyed. The end papers in the front and back of the book include instructions on building paper airplanes. The Story Trees are disappearing throughout the forest. Homes destroyed. Parking gone. The forest creatures must discover why and who. The Characters Bear, deer, goose, beaver, pig, owl, koala bear, and boy. And the policeman. The Cover and Title The cover is a soft blue sky in the top two-thirds with a snowy landscape of white in the bottom third. In the distance are bare-branched trees in a variety of greens. In the foreground are three tree stumps with a red-hatted bear leaning on an ax with skinny pins for legs. At the top is an info blurb in black. The title is below this in white while the author's name is in red at the bottom. Oct 30, Alice Maton rated it really liked it. Simple story line and nice illustrations. Good for KS1. This is a really odd book. The pictures are weird but let's call them original. The story starts out simple enough with pictures describing most of the action but by the end we have a literal court case on our hands with some text in speech bubbles and other text on the page with more complicated words like prosecutor or investigation. Don't get me wrong, it's a great way to learn new words but which age group is this for? I would say the pictures and the premise are for year 2,5 stars I would say the pictures and the premise are for year olds and then the court room with all it's language feels out of place. The pictures are fine and the weird humor is ok and we still read it from time to time but I don't think I would recommend it to my friends. I think it's unnecessarily complicated for younger kids and not interesting enough for older kids while being somewhat confusing for parents like me. The line-up photo in the book is pretty funny though. Dec 31, Dolly rated it liked it Recommends it for: parents reading with their children. Shelves: childrens , environment-recycling , This is a very odd story The illustrations are somewhat simplistic all the animals have stick legs?!? The story is a cautionary tale about the environment, but I'm not sure that it is engaging enough for younger audiences. My favorite part of the book was the dust jacket, with the paper airplane template and directions for making recycled paper. Mar 06, Hanne rated it really liked it. Another great example of how the illustrations in a picturebook can be used to tell a different story to that in the text. Whilst all the animals are busy conducting their investigation, the reader is witnessing clues and the actual crime being commited just accross the gutter. Read this book in Dutch, but I will be writing this review in English. I spotted this book at one of my libraries and just had to have it. The cover, the blurb, they both sounded so much fun. And then I got the book and saw it was by Oliver Jeffers. Imagine my delight! I just love his work, and was even more excited to read the book. This was a very fun story, though I didn't always like the bear. The runner sped the box truck to a parking lot outside Montreal and left it there. Three days of binocular work ensued. No cops. Lawrence River, and left it. Frank and his team spent three last unthrilling days on binocular detail. The crew opened the truck. It was paper of a special kind, made with the same rare cotton-and-linen recipe used for printing American currency. As soon as the security sweep pronounced the shipment clean, Frank welled up with optimism. He is a shortish guy with a nocturnal, indoorsy complexion and a faux-hawk hairdo that sometimes looks fussed over but usually not. He has a big belly that started coming into focus a few years back, during his house arrest for a pot charge. He favors old T-shirts and complicated jeans with lots of pockets and zippers, which, actually, probably did set him back a buck or two. He drives an aging Mitsubishi Eclipse in which I think I counted three different apparatuses for affixing Oakley-style sunglasses to the flip-down visors. You have to have discipline, or otherwise you get caught. I can go to the moon. I could do a heart transplant if I wanted to. Are we to take Frank at his word? Should he be allowed by NASA to attempt a lunar landing? I will say only this: Do not discount someone who apparently launched a currency-fraud scheme so cunning that he was able to rook the Secret Service and the Canadian government and then walk away from the whole mess a free and wealthy man. Possibly out of bureaucratic discretion, possibly sore from their humiliating dealings with the counterfeiter, the legal authorities here and abroad would say very little on the record about the Bourassa case. So what follows is largely a tale straight from the mouth of the guilty party, who was only too delighted to relate the long career of outrages he has visited upon the law. Frank found legal work, mechanicking at a garage. He also found illegal work running stolen automobiles. In his late twenties, Frank committed what he generally describes as the most regrettable error of his professional life: He tried to get rich by legitimate means. On the western side of town, he opened a small factory specializing in the manufacture of brake pads and shoes. The factory was moderately successful. Honest success made Frank Bourassa miserable. And so Frank went back to breaking the law. Frank was convicted on a drug charge and had to do some time. His sentence was twelve months, of which Frank says he was required to serve only three. Canada being Canada, they let him serve it in his living room. After this brush with the law, Frank began to wonder what he was doing with his life. Mexican reefer was flooding the market, driving down prices. Then an epiphany of sorts came to Frank. Across his wide-ranging career, his fundamental strategy for turning labor into cash, he concluded, had been indirect and flawed. You do all this work just to get money. So fuck it: Why not skip everything and just start making currency? Or if we look at money practically and technically, we see such a profusion of security features as to make the notion of faking one a ludicrous impossibility. But as Frank began delving into the matter, his research bore out a simple but life-altering revelation: Limitless wealth was a craft project. He paid a few visits to the U. Serious counterfeiters do not spend their money themselves but instead sell in bulk, and the going rate for a good bill, the Internet informed Frank, was 30 percent of face value. He reasoned that if he was going to put himself through the hassle and expense of buying supplies and so on, he should print enough in a single batch to leave himself set for life. Drawing on cautionary news reports of failed counterfeiters, Frank sketched out a set of best-practice guidelines for his new concern. I knew from the beginning, I needed to sell my bills to Europe or Asia. People look at them all day long, hold it up to the light and everything. Nobody looks twice at a twenty. Most of the people who try their luck at counterfeiting do so by breathtakingly broke-dick means, with stuff you can buy at Office Depot. I knew if I wanted to succeed, my bills had to be as perfect as possible, as close as possible to the way the bills are actually made. Frank drove his paper to a garage outside of town. The place belonged to a farmer who rented it to Frank no questions asked. Inside, Frank had set up a printshop that would make a desktop counterfeiter swoon with envy. Before embarking on the caper, Frank had zero knowledge of professional printing. But it had come to his attention, he says, that a casual acquaintance who ran the presses at a printshop in Montreal had done some prison time. This was auspicious news for a man in need of an offset-lithography specialist willing to work outside the law. It had required tremendous criminal deviousness—and also money. The recipe for the rag paper U. In the fall of , Frank says he began reaching out to paper mills across Europe and Asia under the alias Thomas Moore, an employee of The Letter Shop, a fictitious Quebec stationery concern. He purported to have a special client who wanted some special paper manufactured. What kind of paper? Well, rag paper with cotton, maybe some linen thrown in there. Like, for currency? But Frank had faith that somewhere—maybe in Poland, Slovakia, or Bulgaria—his avatar could flush out a papermaker stupid or crooked enough to make his recipe. In January , he says, his search ended at the Artoz paper company headquartered in Lenzburg, Switzerland. Not a day. Did he? Byrd was a ploy. In December, on the eve of the Senate vote, the Newsweek reporter Robert Shogan released a memo that Rehnquist had written to Jackson in Shogan got the memo from Kurland when he called to interview him and Kurland riffled through the Jackson papers in his office and mentioned that he had an interesting memo. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed. On December 10, , a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee threatened to continue the hearings after the holiday. Nixon responded by calling for a special session. In , two legal scholars, Brad Snyder and John Q. Barrett, published a fascinating law-review article in which they attempted to reconstruct that letter. Barrett Prettyman, another of his former clerks, to see what they made of it. No one knows who had it. In August, scholars using the Frankfurter papers at the Library of Congress began reporting to the staff that a great number of documents were missing. At first, the staff at the library assumed that the missing items had been misfiled, but in November, , the library checked the entire collection against the finding aid as best it could. The missing documents appeared to have been carefully chosen: they included the most significant items in the collection. The library called the F. The special agent in charge suspected that the thief was a scholar, and the F. In March, , an F. He asked Parrish who else was sitting at his table in the Reading Room when he used the papers. Parrish told the F. On March 22, , an F. All three told me they were never questioned. Except for the part about being a lawyer, this description fits only Newman. The report was forwarded to the Justice Department on August 10, And then there was a leak. Anderson, who had an office on the ninth floor of a building on K Street, was the most influential political columnist in the country. They scrambled for stories. Anderson hated Nixon, and Nixon hated Anderson. After looking for evidence that Hoover was a homosexual, Anderson reported that the director of the F. Anderson was followed, and his phone was tapped. In May, Anderson was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Both awards were controversial, as Mark Feldstein reports in a recent biography of Anderson. The trustees of Columbia University, which awards the Pulitzer Prizes, issued a press release expressing disagreement with the Pulitzer board. In June, the Court issued a landmark decision in Branzburg v. Hayes Rehnquist joining a 5—4 majority , ruling that the First Amendment does not protect a reporter who refuses to reveal his sources before a grand jury; the Court has never again ruled on this question. On January 31, , the F. That spring, Anderson published grand-jury records that had been leaked in the Watergate investigation. But the breaking of the Watergate story marked the end of the era of Anderson. By the summer of , the world was riveted by the Watergate hearings, and Anderson and his legmen were scrambling for stories. Maybe the Frankfurter heist appealed because it involved returning government documents. Whitten has said that he got the story from a source inside the F. But Hume finds this theory unlikely. However Whitten found out about the theft, he really did want to get the papers back. According to an F. On October 12, , Anderson received five manila envelopes in the mail. They contained pages and pages of documents—all photocopies. Whitten had a clerk make photocopies of the photocopies; then he destroyed the envelopes. Broderick, that he wanted to arrange a meeting. They met in the bar of the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel. Six days later, Anderson turned up on the front steps of the library, trailed by a ten- man CBS News camera crew. That day, he also wrote to U. Meanwhile, Whitten, realizing that he had mistakenly given to the library some of the first-generation photocopies—which, presumably, had fingerprints on them—called the Manuscript Division and demanded their return. Amazingly, the library complied. Whitten made another set of photocopies, and likely destroyed the last of the first-generation photocopies. CBS never ran the story. The next day, October 20th, Nixon ordered Richardson to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, and Richardson resigned in protest, in what became known as the Saturday Night Massacre. Anderson ran one more story about the theft in his next column, on October 21st. But the Frankfurter story was most decidedly not a scoop in the fall of , when the American Presidency was unravelling. What, after all, was the story of the Frankfurter papers compared with the story of the Nixon tapes? For a time, the F. On October 31, , the man who had been denied access to the papers and whom the bureau had described as its prime suspect was questioned by a federal grand jury. He denied any knowledge of the theft. The records of the grand jury are sealed. The Great Paper Caper - Oliver Jeffers - Google книги

They decide they can make money grifting , however Marge and Lisa begin suspecting of them after they "worked" without Bart's kit, which they both left behind at home. Homer and Bart continue to grift after they have fixed the car, and Grampa volunteers to help them grift, since he was a con-artist during the Great Depression. While performing the grift, they are arrested by an FBI agent. When Homer and Bart get to jail, they realize the FBI agent himself is a con man, and conned them out of their money and the car. Homer and Bart say the car was stolen in the church parking lot. The next morning they are surprised however to learn that Groundskeeper Willie was arrested for stealing the car, as he matched the description they gave of the carjacker as a "foreign loner with wild, bushy hair". Not wanting to admit they were conned, Homer and Bart go along with Marge's theory. After Willie is proven guilty, he snatches Wiggum 's gun and shoots Principal Skinner. At this point Homer finally confesses that he got conned but Marge and the townspeople themselves tell Homer and Bart that they set up the trial and the carjacking to teach them a lesson on conning people, revealing that Skinner was not really shot it was a fake blood pack , the judge was Grampa wearing a latex mask, and the con man who stole their car was an actor called Devon Bradley. As Lisa is ready to explain why the town, media and police officials had "nothing better to do" than show them the consequences of their actions, Otto runs through the courtroom doors, shouting, 'Surf's Up! The scene then cuts to Springfield at the beach, with characters from the episode surfing, including the waiter from the restaurant, the two astronauts from the Mir space station and the sturgeon swimming in the sea. It was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on December 10, Originally, the episode would be about pool hustling , however as writing ensued, the script went through several incarnations until the Simpsons writers settled on the grifting story seen in the episode. Omine read several books about grifters for preparation for writing the episode. The other writers also prepared themselves by watching several heist films , including House of Games , Paper Moon and The Sting , the latter two of which are referenced in the episode. For example, the revelation that Devon Bradley, the FBI agent in the episode who is revealed to be a con artist, was inspired by such films. In a scene in the episode, Homer and Bart exit the Magic Palace's gift shop, only to end up in another gift shop. The scene was based on an experience of the episode's show runner Mike Scully , who, in order to exit the Lance Burton Theatre after a magic show, had to pass through a gift shop. The writers had conceived the courtroom scene, but they were stuck trying to come up with an ending after Skinner had been shot. They eventually decided that the trial was a scam staged by the townspeople, and Simpsons writer George Meyer pitched the surfing scene that closed the episode. A scene that was eventually dropped from the episode featured Robby Krieger , guitarist of the American rock band The Doors , as himself. Krieger had been promised a guest role on The Simpsons after the staff were allowed to use the Doors song " The End " for the season 11 episode " Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ". However, during production, Scully thought that the scene stood out too much and that Krieger's cameo felt "too obviously shoe-horned in," so the scene ended up being cut from the episode. To this day, Krieger has not officially been featured in an episode of The Simpsons. Scully hired Norton for the role after James L. Brooks , one of The Simpsons' producers, told Scully that Norton was "a big fan of the show" and was willing to guest star in an episode. Learn more about our program. Close search. Previous slide Next slide. The Great Paper Caper. Options Paperback Hardcover. Add to cart. About this Book. Reviews from around the World. Product Specification. Review Title. Review Body. Previous Next. I love the illustrations, particularly this lineup of suspected felons: Note the teddy bear in the lower lef In a strange world that is startlingly similar to our own, all manner of creatures, including a red-haired boy, live subterranean lives under hollow trees. I love the illustrations, particularly this lineup of suspected felons: Note the teddy bear in the lower left corner. He looks guilty to me. View 1 comment. Barely 3 stars from me. There is some humor, some sweetness, some interesting, intricate pictures, and quite a bit of whimsy. There are little lessons about conservation, trees and paper and theft and redemption and giving. But those words are too mighty for this one, I think. I was a bit disturbed by a pig cooking what looked to me to be bacon. I guess i Barely 3 stars from me. There is text within some of the pictures that work best for independent readers. Kids who like paper airplanes and who care about the environment might get a kick out of this one. My favorite things in this book are some of the illustrations, including the one with various creatures living under the trees, ladders and doors included. I think Oliver Jeffers should illustrate something for Wes Anderson. Or they should at least get coffee together. Jan 04, Betsy rated it really liked it. Oliver Jeffers is an odd duck. This is a statement that should surprise no one. The man simply has a very distinctive way of looking at the world. But then you have his other titles to contend with. His How to Catch a Star s. I often find that I can fill up these rev Oliver Jeffers is an odd duck. Oliver Jeffers is, as I have said before, an odd duck. The Great Paper Caper is proof enough of that. There is a mystery lurking in these woods. It started small enough. Local forest denizens hardly even noticed when the first branches of their trees started to disappear. When the trees themselves started to go, however, it was time to do some serious detective work. At long last something was found near a crime scene; a paper airplane. A paper airplane with the paw prints of the local bear all over it. And sure as shooting when the animals check it out they see that the bear has been turning a plethora of wood into paper airplanes in a vain attempt to live up to the paper airplane stardom of his ancestors. After a full confession and an outpouring of sincere regret the bear is sentenced to a replanting of the trees and his fellow animals find a way to help him come to terms with his paper airplane legacy. Stories of industrious lumberjack bears do not initially sound particularly British. Or the red telephone booth into which the other animals climb. Take a closer look at the book, however, and all kinds of tiny slights and thought out whiffs of detail catch the eye. Or, even more subtle, the final image where the bear merrily water a tree, a single bare light bulb glowing in his trailer, not thirty yards away. Going back to the style of the artist, Jeffers has always had a weakness for critters and creatures that toddle about on two thin stick-like legs. He avoided it with the penguin in Lost and Found , which was only right since penguins are meant for waddling, not toddling. Generally it is a look that has suited his small animals and people quite well. So it was strange to look through this book a second time and see that the bear, of all creatures, also sports a pair of legs that resemble nothing so much as a pair of well-spaced dowel rods. An unexpected look, certainly, but one that fits within the rest of the book without any problems. His creations fail with a kind of unceasing certainty that is somewhat reassuring in this crazy madcap universe we live in. As it stands, Jeffers takes the clever middle road and all is well and right with the world. However, there is much to be said for a picture book as thoroughly amusing and enjoyable as this. Purely enjoyment from start to finish. Ages Oct 14, Emily rated it really liked it Shelves: picture-books. A great story and lots of opportunities to use with a class. Older children could do their own version of the court case and put the bear on trial with a jury and judge deciding whether he is guilty or not and what his punishment should be. As the bear is making paper airplanes, this could link to a science experiment where children are create their own plane and measure how far they can go. What the hell is it? Perhaps I should just say what we're all thinking - dickhead. It's a perfect representation, no? Did the editor not notice this. I mean, it's kind of obvious. Is it some sort of unique Australian thing of which I'm unaware? As for the story, The Great Paper Caper introduces the idea of crime to children using animals. Restitution is then demanded which was happily given by planting new trees to replace the ones stolen, and all is forgiven. I feel like I should like this picture book more. Sadly, upon finishing I was just left cold. I'm not sure why. Feb 10, Kathy Davie rated it really liked it Shelves: picture-book , children , mystery. A standalone picture book mystery involving a crime in the forest. My Take Okay, yeah, it's a mystery all right, and perfectly set up for young children. It will require a parent to help interpret the minimal text, though. The graphics are really simple in warm tones and pastels and quite sweet. Do check out the sign the koala is holding The pruned trees are something common in people's yards. Also common is the blame game played by all the animals! Both can make the story more familiar for kids. And a great opportunity for parents to talk about it being wrong to blame people without proof. The investigation itself, using objective third person point-of-view, is pretty funny with the "do not cross" tape, that naughty pig, and no leaf left uninvestigated. The whole process follows the legalities, which can reinforce this for the kids. It's at the end that we learn of Bear's ambitions, and the compassion shown is so sweet. That end will make you smile, as will the practical "punishment" with Bear replacing what he destroyed. The end papers in the front and back of the book include instructions on building paper airplanes. The Story Trees are disappearing throughout the forest. Homes destroyed. Parking gone. The forest creatures must discover why and who. The Characters Bear, deer, goose, beaver, pig, owl, koala bear, and boy. And the policeman. The Cover and Title The cover is a soft blue sky in the top two-thirds with a snowy landscape of white in the bottom third. In the distance are bare-branched trees in a variety of greens. In the foreground are three tree stumps with a red-hatted bear leaning on an ax with skinny pins for legs. At the top is an info blurb in black. The title is below this in white while the author's name is in red at the bottom. Oct 30, Alice Maton rated it really liked it. Simple story line and nice illustrations. Good for KS1. This is a really odd book. The pictures are weird but let's call them original. The story starts out simple enough with pictures describing most of the action but by the end we have a literal court case on our hands with some text in speech bubbles and other text on the page with more complicated words like prosecutor or investigation. Don't get me wrong, it's a great way to learn new words but which age group is this for?

The Great Money Caper - Wikipedia

The place belonged to a farmer who rented it to Frank no questions asked. Inside, Frank had set up a printshop that would make a desktop counterfeiter swoon with envy. Before embarking on the caper, Frank had zero knowledge of professional printing. But it had come to his attention, he says, that a casual acquaintance who ran the presses at a printshop in Montreal had done some prison time. This was auspicious news for a man in need of an offset-lithography specialist willing to work outside the law. It had required tremendous criminal deviousness—and also money. The recipe for the rag paper U. In the fall of , Frank says he began reaching out to paper mills across Europe and Asia under the alias Thomas Moore, an employee of The Letter Shop, a fictitious Quebec stationery concern. He purported to have a special client who wanted some special paper manufactured. What kind of paper? Well, rag paper with cotton, maybe some linen thrown in there. Like, for currency? But Frank had faith that somewhere—maybe in Poland, Slovakia, or Bulgaria—his avatar could flush out a papermaker stupid or crooked enough to make his recipe. In January , he says, his search ended at the Artoz paper company headquartered in Lenzburg, Switzerland. By now, Frank had adopted the nom de plume Jackson Maxwell, of the Keystone Investment and Trading Company, a securities firm whose letterhead, suspiciously, bore no street address. In correspondence included in court documents that Frank shared with me, Maxwell told his mark that Keystone was looking to print bond certificates on secure rag paper—customized with one or two security measures designed to, um, foil counterfeiters. He got them to add linen to the recipe. He asked them to mix in chemicals to thwart security pens and black-light tests. He persuaded them to sew in a security strip reading, in near microscopic print, usa twenty. Artoz, he says, also agreed to imprint his paper with a watermark, an image etched into a cylindrical printing drum and pressed into the paper while the pulp is still wet. How did he manage that, exactly? To some guy in Germany, who the fuck is it? Sitting at a bar with him one afternoon, I handed Frank an array of bills—a fifty-euro note, a U. Who is that? He looks like a clown, for all I care. Come pick it up. Now that he had the paper, the equipment, and the guy to operate it, Frank figured the fabrication of his fortune would be a simple matter of flipping a switch. And sure enough, after several weeks of tinkering to get the color just right, he was moved by what he saw coming off the Heidelberg. Right now! Oh yeah! But to his surprise, guys who were perfectly comfortable shipping cocaine by the container load drew the line at phony bills. This bewildered Frank Bourassa. Are they screwed up? For months, Frank did nothing but pack sample boxes—hundreds of thousands, face value—for his guys to take to potential clients. I was just sending out free shit. These were four buyers of the ideal kind, guys with import-export connections who wanted to sell the bills overseas. Frank says they started taking a million a week apiece, which he was selling them for thirty cents on the dollar. Still, at this rate, it would take over a year to unload the full press run—ample time, Frank worried, for the cops to get wise to the garage. Officials from the U. In search of new business, Frank began flying George all over the world. One day in May , Lefebvre asked Cop whether he might also be interested in some high-quality counterfeit bills. Cop said that he would indeed be interested. And abandoning his usual caution, Frank stuffed the bills into a box and carried them, in person, to Lefebvre, who was waiting for him at the house of a guy they both knew. So Frank boxed up another K, and he set off to meet Lefebvre, whom, it turned out, a helicopter had followed. It was flying at such an altitude that Frank neither saw it nor heard it. Ordinarily, he might have simply parked in the driveway and lugged in the boxes of phony cash. But today something told him to be careful. Rather than tote the deliverables inside in plain view, he backed into the carport, an inadvertent act of caution that would prove helpful down the line. Just before dawn on May 23, , Frank Bourassa woke up in the worst sort of way. Sounds of men yelling. His girlfriend in bed beside him, losing it. Wake up! Frank jerked on a pair of torn jeans and an old T-shirt and padded downstairs to get the door. A dozen or so representatives of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were standing on the threshold, along with a pair of agents from the U. Secret Service. They also turned up printing plates and close to a million dollars in what looked to be U. The size of the haul was, for the authorities, a source of joy. Nearly a million dollars in fake bills, stacked in a suburban basement, is a sight few cops see in the course of their careers. And so much equipment, too! You got nothing. These are samples. So I was thinking both at the same time. Mainly I was thinking: Shit. The footage, later turned over to Frank and his lawyer, all three hours of it, shows the accused sitting in the corner of a purgatorial white room, hugging himself against the chill and the prospect of a prison sentence. Throughout his chat with the police, Frank looks like a freshly beaten dog. The officer tells Frank that his girlfriend has been arrested. Her house will probably be seized. His girlfriend is a schoolteacher, an innocent, he proclaims. She knew nothing of the business, Frank says, and presumably never once wandered into her own basement and asked what all of those fake American twenties were doing scattered around. No one wants to spend a year in prison, but when it came down to it, I could do it. Toward the end of the interview, Frank is astonished when two members of the Secret Service enter the room bearing information he is wholly unprepared to receive. They simply tell Frank that they are getting ready to extradite him to the U. Sixty years, worst case. The suspect goes silent. His left eye begins to twitch. As Frank tells it, his salvation from extradition rested on a single card: Under Canadian law, the police need clear evidence to secure a search warrant. Not wanting to gamble their entire case to please the U. So in the end he would not be serving time in an American cell. At this point, the prosecution—while thrilled with the hand they were holding—knew for sure only about the million dollars turned up in the raid. When Frank returned, provisionally, to the free world, he took a job working construction. The Crown, for its part, was doing all it could to bolster the case against Frank. Strange cars were tailing him. His phone was almost certainly tapped. He did not talk about the money, to anyone. He tried to put it out of his mind. In September , Frank says, he received an e-mail from a mysterious buyer expressing a sudden interest in the Heidelberg press Frank had listed on an industrial-equipment site the previous year. The buyer, as it happened, was an undercover cop. He stopped returning e-mails, and the sting fell apart. And in December , a year and a half after his arrest, the case of Crown v. He would certainly have been jailed alongside Lefebvre. Although it appeared the Crown had agreed to let Frank Bourassa buy his freedom, Frank was still in a touchy spot. Instead, they set a drop date over a month hence, for January 31, The delay seemed to buy the authorities some strategic leeway. It was as if the readers were included in the community that lived in the forest while they were trying to find out the culprit. There was a sense of relief once the culprit was found and then a well-deserved punishment for him. I liked how the author ended the book. He could have ended the book with the bear planting new trees to replace the ones that he cut down but instead he did more by having the community make him a giant paper airplane so that he could win his competition. It goes beyond the simple crime and punishment story and expresses to readers to show compassion for those who may unintentionally do wrong. Another aspect that I enjoyed was how the author pushes readers to think about tough issues. Deforestation is still prevalent to this day. Readers can get a gist of the importance of it through this book. The upset community members indirectly speak for those animals in the forest. The big idea is focused on the conservation of the forest and how to help improve the damage that has already been done. As the residents of the forest notice that branches have begun to go missing from the trees, they attempt to solve the mystery, accusing each other at first, and then banding together to find the culprit. A local bear, in the meantime, obsesses about becoming a paper airplane- making champion like his forbears Only the second picture-book mystery that I have read, following upon Graeme Base's marvelous The Eleventh Hour, this engaging tale is less mysterious to the reader - the illustrations make it plain who is chopping off branches - than it is to the characters, who nevertheless enact a detective story in miniature. I enjoyed both story and artwork, and appreciated the approach to justice exhibited in the final section of the book, which involves the culprit offering repentance and making restitution, rather than being punished. The ecological message here - that our choices affect the environment, and therefore also the people around us - is worked seamlessly into a story that never feels preachy. Recommended to all Oliver Jeffers fans, and to anyone looking for picture-books addressing our responsibility to the natural world and to all our fellow creatures. The illustrations were amusing but the story was rather forced. Trying too hard to be environmentalists. The subterranean homes of all the forest dwellers including the human were clever. I also liked the suspect lineup of the different species of bears. I think more humorous story development would have improved this story,. Here at Walmart. Your email address will never be sold or distributed to a third party for any reason. Sorry, but we can't respond to individual comments. If you need immediate assistance, please contact Customer Care. Your feedback helps us make Walmart shopping better for millions of customers. Recent searches Clear All. Enter Location. Update location. Learn more. Report incorrect product information. Oliver Jeffers. Walmart Free 2-day delivery. Pickup not available. Add to list. Add to registry. Tree by tree, the forest is being cut down. There must be clues. For instance, look--there is a mysterious bear carrying an ax! But what would a bear want with so many trees? Perhaps the discarded paper airplanes littering the forest floor have a story to tell? About This Item. We aim to show you accurate product information. Manufacturers, suppliers and others provide what you see here, and we have not verified it. See our disclaimer. From the illustrator of the 1 smash hit The Day the Crayons Quit comes a whodunnit just right for the youngest of readers not to mention instructions for how to build the perfect paper airplane! The animals? Write a review See all reviews Write a review. Average Rating: 5. March 11, See more. Reviewed by vboch1 vboch1. 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