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4	''The Three Robbers'' (''Les trois brigands'' in French / ''Die drei Räuber'' in German) is a [[ChildrensLiterature children's]] {{picture book\|s}} written and illustrated by Creator/TomiUngerer. It was initially published in English language in 1961 when Ungerer worked in the USA. French and German versions (the first languages of Ungerer) soon followed.
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6	It tells the story of three black-clad highwaymen who terrorize and rob coach travellers. Their life of crime changes the day they find a lone orphan little girl named Tiffany and decide to shelter her.
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8	The story was [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] into an American [[https://youtu.be/dcbaDAtjCN0 animated short]] by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then into a [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeRobbers German feature animated film]] in 2007.
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10	!!This book provides examples of:
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12	* BabiesEverAfter: Over time, the orphans that the robbers found and helped have grown into adults and founded families and even an entire city.
13	* {{BFG}}: One of the robbers (named Dominik in the film) uses a blunderbuss to hold the travellers at gunpoint in order to rob them.
14	* BigFancyCastle: The robbers end up buying a big castle to house all the orphans that they find.
15	* CharacterDevelopment: Tiffany convinces the robbers to give up their highwaymen ways and use their formidable wealth to help orphans.
16	* CoordinatedClothes: Once they're brought to the castle, the orphans all start wearing red versions of the Three Robbers' outfits (instead of black).
17	* TheHighwayman: The story is initially about three robbers who terrorize travellers and rob them.
18	* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The three robbers all look identical, and there's no mention of them being triplets, let alone brothers.
19	* MoneyDumb: The robbers have accumulated a colossal wealth over the years with what they robbed, but as Tiffany finds out, they don't know what to do with it. She ends up convincing them to create a big orphanage in a castle.
20	* NoNameGiven: The robbers are not named in the book.
21	* OrphanageOfLove: The castle the robbers buy to house the orphans that they find becomes one. The kids are so well treated that, once they're adults and come to found a city, they build three big towers the roofs of which have the same shape as the robbers' hats to honor their memory.
22	* SinisterSchnoz: At least one of the robbers has a pointy nose in the book.
23	* TechnicolorBlade: The metal part of the double sided axe is red.
24	* TerribleTrio: A trio of robbers.
25	* WeaponBasedCharacterization: Each one of the robbers has a distinctive weapon: one has a bellows to blow pepper into the eyes of the coaches' horses, another has a big red double sided axe to demolish the coaches' wheels, and the third has a [[{{BFG}} blunderbuss]] to threaten the travellers in order to rob them.

Context Literature / TheThreeRobbers