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 clairs! 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

 

 

This book features in the following series: Early Reader, Highway Rat .

There are 40 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2015 by Scholastic .

Julia Donaldson is a former Children's Laureate and the author of the internationally bestselling book The Gruffalo, as well as numerous other popular titles. Axel Scheffler has had books published in over a dozen countries. Born in Hamburg, he now lives in London.