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I Was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers
- Narrator
- Robert Glenister
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publish Date
- 14 October 2021
- Run Time
- 3 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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I was a Rat! Roger insists, and insists . . . In fact, when Bob the cobbler and his washerwoman wife, Joan, find the young boy abandoned on their doorstep, these are the only words he says. And he does have ratty behaviour, it's true.
Staying with Bob and Joan, however, Roger learns quickly to behave more like a human child. They try to find his parents, but the orphanage, police and hospital all have nothing on their records about a lost boy in the city. What is the truth? As more and more people find out about Roger the mysterious rat-boy he faces more and more danger. But sometimes help comes from the most unexpected of places . . .
© Philip Pullman 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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[A] perfectly shaped story . . . a fairy tale, an adventure, a parody and certainly a book that shines
Literacy and Learning
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Fairy tale, satire, slapstick humour and suspenseful melodrama . . . a glorious tale
Guardian
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A comic genius of children's fiction
The Times
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Details
- Author
- Philip Pullman, illustrated by Peter Bailey
- Narrator
- Robert Glenister
- Duration
- 3 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 October 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241548806
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. I was a Rat! Roger insists, and insists . . . In fact, when Bob the cobbler and his washerwoman wife, Joan, find the young boy abandoned on their doorstep, these are the only words he says. And he does have ratty behaviour, it's true.Staying with Bob and Joan, however, Roger learns quickly to behave more like a human child. They try to find his parents, but the orphanage, police and hospital all have nothing on their records about a lost boy in the city. What is the truth? As more and more people find out about Roger the mysterious rat-boy he faces more and more danger. But sometimes help comes from the most unexpected of places . . .© Philip Pullman 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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