I Was a Rat!
When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joan's doorstep unable to say much except 'I was a rat', the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob reads about odder things every day in his newspaper. To them, the sunny little chap is Roger, and he's trying hard to adapt to human life.
When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joan's doorstep unable to say much except 'I was a rat', the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob reads about odder things every day in his newspaper. To them, the sunny little chap is Roger, and he's trying hard to adapt to human life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780440866398 (0440866391)
Publish date: November 4th 2004
Publisher: Yearling
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Novels,
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Fairy Tales,
Asian Literature,
Indonesian Literature
A boy turns up on an elderly couple's doorstep claiming that he used to be a rat. Despite the fact that he knows nothing about How To Be A Human, the couple take him in and try to look after him, but his ignorance frequently lands him in all kinds of trouble. To be honest, I found this book...insi...
I would be curious to see how a young reader reacts to this, because there's a lot here that I expect to appeal primarily to an adult audience. One night, a boy knocks on the door of a cobbler and his wife, a laundress. "I was a rat" he tells them, only three weeks old, and then, suddenly, he was a ...
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This book is about a young boy named Roger. One night Bob and his wife, Joan, hear a knock at their door and Bob opens the door only to find a boy standing right there. Bob tells the young boy to come in the house, and when asked by Bob and Joan who he is, where he is from, etc, what he said was "I ...
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