The Highway Rat Early Reader (Paperback / Softback)Julia Donaldson

  • Paperback / Softback
  • 40 Pages / Published 5 Nov 2015
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Description

  Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s bestselling picture book, The Highway Rat, is now available in a read-alone full-colour novel format.  Teach your child to read with their favourite Julia Donaldson! ‘Give me your buns and your biscuits! Give me your chocolate éclairs! For I am the Rat of the highway, and the Rat Thief never shares!’ Life is not safe for the other animals, as the villainous Highway Rat gallops along the highway, stealing their food. Clover from a rabbit; nuts from a squirrel – he even steals his own horse’s hay. Then he meets his comeuppance, in the form of a cunning duck.

A fabulous, rollicking rhyme, in the style of the Alfred Noyes poem, ‘The Highwayman’. This Early Reader edition contains the complete classic story and pictures a pocket-book format with an extra-clear font and layout to support children who are gaining confidence in reading The Highway Rat premiered as an animation on BBC Christmas 2017 The animated film of Tabby McTat stars voice artists including Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) as the narrator, Rob Brydon (Gavin and Stacey) as Fred, Sope Dirisu (Gangs of London) as Tabby McTat, alongside Cariad Lloyd, Joanna Scanlan and Susan Wokoma. Look out for Jonty Gentoo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler in 2024.

 

Additional information

Weight 90 g
Dimensions 191 × 5 mm
ISBN-13

9781407157214

Publisher

Scholastic

Imprint

Alison Green Books

Date of Publication

5 Nov 2015

By (author)

Julia Donaldson

Pages

40

Format

Paperback / softback

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