The Real Thief

Paperback | 22 November 2017

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The charming story of a loyal and wrongly-accused goose, with delightful illustrations by the author

Gawain the goose is devoted to King Basil the bear, and takes his job as Chief Guard of the Royal Treasury seriously. When rubies, then gold ducats, and finally the world-famous Kalikak diamond vanish from the treasure house, there is no way to account for the disappearances. Only Gawain and the King have keys...

Woe and misery must be borne - by Gawain, by King Basil and the entire community, as well as by the real thief - before the goose's good name is restored. Brought to trial, Gawain escapes from his faithless friends into lonely self-exile. But at last the thief, burdened by guilt, sees that the right thing must be done and determines, heroically, to do it.

Industry Reviews

Steig's captivating style and tongue-in-cheek humor bring to life an endearing set of animal characters with some extremely human foibles Booklist Steig's books are like perfect smooth stones, complete in themselves, with no seams to be found... he always has the skill to bring together what seems to be a lot of spur-of-the-moment choices and make them into stories that land so perfectly and satisfyingly and feel so inevitable in their endings -- Jon Klassen, author of This Is Not My Hat Guardian Impossible to resist Kirkus Reviews In this age of poorly thought out endings to books, it's a treat to end with one of Steig's many stunning last lines LA Times

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