In my experience - one child - this is an excellent book. I must have read it out loud hundreds of times night after night ( )

I remember loving this book as a child, so the story itself must be wonderful from the perspective of a child. However, as an adult, I would NOT want my children reading this book. It glorifies the "profession" of being a thief. Granted both burglar's reform themselves in the end, the rest of the book devotes absolutely no time to actually showing impressionable youth why the two burglars should have reformed. In retrospect, I think I might now have an idea why I was such a kleptomaniac during my first few years of school. ( )

FROM PUBLISHER'S INFO:
Everything in Burglar Bill's life is stolen, from the toast, marmalade and coffee he has for breakfast to the bed he sleeps in. One night when he is out burgling, he comes across a box with holes in the lid on a doorstep. He picks it up of course and when he gets home he discovers, to his horror, that he has stolen a baby. He and the baby muddle along together until one night he is disturbed by a burglar - Burglar Betty. She is the mother of Burglar Bill's baby. Bill and Betty decide to reform and live honest lives; they return all the stolen goods, get married and live happily ever after!