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.
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