The Highway Rat Early Reader

Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's bestselling picturebook, The Highway Rat, is now available in a read-alonefull-colour novel format.Teach your child to read with their favourite Julia Donaldson!'Give me your buns and your biscuits!Giveme your chocolate eclairs!For I am the Ratof the highway,and the Rat Thief never shares!'Life is not safe for the other animals, as the villainous HighwayRat gallops along the highway, stealing their food.Clover from a rabbit; nuts from a squirrel - he even steals hisown horse's hay. Then he meets his comeuppance, in the form ofa cunning duck. A fabulous, rollicking rhyme, in the style of theAlfred Noyes poem, 'The Highwayman'.This Early Reader edition contains the complete classic storyand picturesa pocket-book formatwith an extra-clear font and layout to support children who aregaining confidence in readingThe Highway Rat premiered as an animation on BBC Christmas2017