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Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011
Best-selling author/ illustrator combination Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have teamed up for another great adventure. Many of the creatures that appear in The Gruffalo feature in this rollicking adventure of a greedy Highway Rat and how he is outwitted by a very clever duck. Axel Scheffler’s animals are as full of vivid expression as usual.
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The Highway Rat Synopsis
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
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781407157214 |
| Publication date: |
5th November 2015 |
| Author: |
Julia Donaldson |
| Illustrator: |
Axel Scheffler |
| Publisher: |
Alison Green Books an imprint of Scholastic |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
40 pages |
| Series: |
Early Reader |
| Suitable For: |
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About Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages.
Her other books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Hospital Dog, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks.
Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle series, illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs – and her brilliant live shows are always in demand.
She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature.
Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.
Click here to read a Q & A with Julia.
Author photo © Steve Ullathorne
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