The Great Paper Caper: Oliver Jeffers

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Miss Mills: Mr. Guest – I’m really sorry to interrupt your assembly but it’s a bit of an emergency- all of the paper has gone missing and I can’t do any photo copying for the classes. There was loads of paper before the holidays! The secrecy surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court derives from a policy set by the fourth Chief Justice, John Marshall, who wanted the Court to issue single, unanimous decisions and to conceal all evidence of disagreement. His critics considered this policy to be incompatible with a government accountable to the people. “The very idea of cooking up opinions in conclave begets suspicions,” Thomas Jefferson complained. This criticism has never entirely quieted, but every time things get noisy the Court simply brazens it out. To historians and journalists who are keen to have the Court’s papers saved and unsealed, advocates of judicial secrecy insist that the ordinary claims of history and of public interest do not apply to the papers of U.S. Supreme Court Justices; the only claim on the Justices is justice itself. Exciting new cover reissue of this funny forest story, from award-winning, internationally bestselling picture book creator of Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers. 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.

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As for the story, The Great Paper Caper introduces the idea of crime to children using animals. We investigate the theft of trees, arrest the culprit and give him a fair trial. We empathize with the bear 'criminal' and his situation; a desire to follow the family tradition to win the paper plane competition as the generations before him did. Restitution is then demanded which was happily given by planting new trees to replace the ones stolen, and all is forgiven. Revision Col 3 Collins at Home | Support for schools Home tutors Letts Revision Collins4Parents Collins Book Sale Revision for students Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing -

I just found it bad that he would just cut down trees, or parts of trees. You could clearly see there are people living in those trees. Once upon a time in a forest, many creatures lived happily alongside one another and in harmony with nature, until one day something very strange happened. Branches began to disappear from the trees but, despite careful and thorough investigation, no one could work out what was going on, until an eyewitness spotted a crucial piece of evidence. There is some humor, some sweetness, some interesting, intricate pictures, and quite a bit of whimsy. Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks. Home >

The statute of limitations on the theft of Frankfurter’s papers had expired by the nineteen-nineties. Neither Anderson nor Whitten ever revealed the name of the thief, if they even knew it. Anderson is dead; Whitten has said that he never learned who stole the papers. Hume, Cloherty, and Owens don’t remember where Whitten got the tip-off about the Frankfurter theft. “We called our chief source O.T. Transom,” Owens told me. “For ‘over the transom.’ ” Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown

LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. 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. In 1940, the Court decided a case that arose in Minersville, Pennsylvania, when two elementary-school students, Billy and Lillian Gobitas, both Jehovah’s Witnesses, refused to salute the American flag. 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. “It is not for a Judge to indulge in private exegesis of his opinions,” he insisted. “He must let them speak for themselves.” Meanwhile, he filed explanations among his papers, awaiting the redemption of history.

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I loved this book! Such a cute story where you initially think the bear is the bad guy, but instead empathise with him and end up really wanting him to succeed in his goal. It shows the importance of when trees are cut down, and how we may need them at times but should try our best to make up for doing so. I do appreciate that the bear doesn’t actually, y’know, WIN or anything at the end. Jeffers ends the book on a note of triumph that doesn’t actually say, “and then the bear won the contest.” In the end, all the other animals recycle the bear’s discarded, defunct airplanes and turn them into a humungous airplane (love the fact that it’s still lined paper) and he rides it in style to the finish line. Which is all well and good, but that fortunately isn’t the same thing as saying that he actually won or anything. I mean, it’s pretty clear from the get-go that the bear is a lamentable paper airplane pilot. His creations fail with a kind of unceasing certainty that is somewhat reassuring in this crazy madcap universe we live in. If he were to suddenly win of his own accord or, worse, thanks to his new friends’ intervention, that would be despicable. As it stands, Jeffers takes the clever middle road and all is well and right with the world.

In July of 1973, the special agent heading the investigation in Washington filed a report regarding the possible indictment of a new “prime suspect.” A redacted F.B.I. memo explains that this man “developed as a suspect” because the investigation of signature cards at the Library of Congress “indicated that he had reviewed the majority” of the stolen papers, while other lines of investigation had found that he “had made inquiries prior to the theft with the executor of the late Frankfurter’s estate for review of papers” and that the request was rejected, and that “he has made similar inquiries at the Harvard Law School Library.” (Another redacted F.B.I. memo refers to “a prime suspect who is a lawyer in New York who had been doing research on these papers,” which might be a different suspect but appears to be the same man.) Except for the part about being a lawyer, this description fits only Newman. The report was forwarded to the Justice Department on August 10, 1973. And then there was a leak. Look at the illustrations that show what the animals are saying. Can you turn these into speech bubbles? Could you use those speech bubbles to write what they are saying, using the correct punctuation? I think it's unnecessarily complicated for younger kids and not interesting enough for older kids while being somewhat confusing for parents like me.

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During the assembly Mr. Guest kept getting interrupted by different members of staff. At approximately 9.10am and then at every 2-3 minutes intervals there will be interruptions as follows: Fly some paper aeroplanes and measure how far they fly. Can you put the results into a graph and describe what happened? Mrs Hughes: I’ve looked through the CCTV like you asked and there appears to be a large brown thing that has been cutting the trees down. I need you to know that I am not a bad bear and that I’ve just made a silly mistake. I’ve even seen some wanted posters with my face on them. I really hope that you can help me.