The Highway Rat Early Reader

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


• The animated film of Tabby McTat stars
  
  voice artists including Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) as the narrator,
  
  Rob Brydon (Gavin and Stacey) as Fred, Sope Dirisu (Gangs
  
  of London) as Tabby McTat, alongside Cariad Lloyd, Joanna Scanlan
  
  and Susan Wokoma.


• Look out for Jonty Gentoo by Julia
  
  Donaldson and Axel Scheffler in 2024.