The Highway Rat

By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (illustrator),

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The rollicking adventurous picture book from the number
one bestselling author and illustrator of The Gruffalo, Stick
Man and Zog.
'Give me your buns and your biscuits!

Give me your chocolate eclairs!

For I am the Rat of the highway,

and the Rat Thief never shares!'

Life is not safe…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Highway Rat as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Alexandre Lacroix

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I have all the albums of Julia Donaldson, and I must say that I appreciate her work a lot, she plays with sonorities like in nursery rhymes. The Highway Rat is especially praised by my kids, and I think it’s because the hero is openly cruel and abominable, stealing the food of other animals with no pity at all… And, well, he’s arrogant and shameless but obviously punished at the end.

From Alexandre's list on bedtime stories.