The Skillful Thief

Writtern and illustrated by Heitz Bruno

  • Picture Book
  • Age group: 5 and up
  • Pages: 56
  • Format: 26 x 33 cm
  • Hardcover
  • RP: 17 euros

A young man returns home, having made his fortune. When the mayor of his village learns how the young man became rich so quickly, he offers him a strange deal…

This tale from the Basque Country, devoid of any moral lesson, was collected and translated by a 19th-century English clergyman. With its humor and irreverence—which Bruno Heitz’s engravings mischievously highlight—it foreshadows the much-loved genre of the “gentleman thief.”

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