Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-01-08 04:00:57 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40806617 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The book ends at school assembly with the boys being simultaneously castigated for their illegal raid on Skinner's premises and their "disreputable" money-raising schemes, which are considered by the headmaster to be detrimental to the image of the school, and lauded as heroes for uncovering the criminals' operations by Inspector Brook. The headmaster relents in the light of Inspector Brook's praise and says that the school will pay for the broken window (the missing money not having been recovered). The boys promise to leave any future criminal detection to the police.

The story, which is told in the first person by one of the boys, begins with ‘The Ambush in Abbey Lane’:The saving grace is the fact that The Otterbury Incident takes itself so seriously. This isn't an adult writing an oh-so-cute story about kids. This is a kid writing a life-or-death narrative about himself and his friends, and the illusion holds all the way to the very end. There's plenty of adventure and very colorful characters, who speak with individual voices and seem to have a life of their own outside the story. I apologize for giving so much of the plot away, but it was such fun to write about. The Otterbury Incident combines all the elements that make for an exciting boys story; war games, crime-solving, camaraderie, and a good deal of dangerous climbing and breaking and entering. While written for young boys, there is absolutely no reason why an adolescent, (or even an adult, for that matter), of either sex shouldn't enjoy it just as much. It's a classic in its own right, and has the significant advantage of realism, and while a J.K. Rowling and a Garth Nix might come along every generation or so, most quality contemporary children's fiction tends to be either magical or uncanny in one way or another. The Otterbury Incident, however, barely tests the limits of your credulity. The events that transpire could quite conceivably take place. The adventures the boys have, while obviously exhilarating and dangerous, could happen to any group of kids in the right place at the right time. The Chief Inspector later confirms to George that often the best informants for crimes like breaking and entering with the intention of deliberate property deprivation, (theft is probably a better way to put it) are sharp-eyed youngsters out on the streets at all times; washing dishes, delivering newspapers, carrying loads, and hawking merchandise. Essentially doing the kind of things Ted and Toppy and the others dreamed up for the N.Y.A.F. The Otterbury Incident is a novel for children by Cecil Day-Lewis first published in the UK in 1948 with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, and in the USA in 1949. Day-Lewis's second and final children's book, the novel is an adaptation of a French screenplay, Nous les gosses (Us Kids), that was filmed in 1941. [1] Plot [ edit ]

The book is written in the first person of George, a subordinate "officer" in one of the "armies" of the war games.

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Later, to their collective delight, the final account reveals that the boys collected more than what was required to pay for the broken window. Deciding to sleep on the final decision, the money is entrusted to Ted, who keeps it in a wooden box somebody gave him The next morning? Disaster! The money's been stolen. The story now takes on a much stronger feel of a detective/crime-solving novel, as Ted's lieutenants are completely convinced of his innocence and seek a way to exonerate him, ideally by catching the real thief.