The Highway Rat (Hardback)

A bedtime rhyme with rattitude from Julia and Axel. This furry bandit will ambush your snacks – and your heart. Quick: hide your chocolate éclairs! Do you like buns? Or tasty sweets? So does the Highway Rat. If you’ve got them, he’ll steal them. No food is safe, and that’s that. This rotten rodent steals nuts from squirrels. He hijacks his own horse’s hay. What can stop his appetite for snack-based crime? Perhaps a clever duck can save the day…

A funny rhyming romp by the creators of The Gruffalo

Explores themes of saying sorry and starting afresh

Julia and Axel are the UK’s leading picture book team

Julia was Children’s Laureate from 2011-2013

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Highway Rat colouring

Can you colour this picture of the Highway Rat?
Highway Rat colouring

Here’s a picture of the dastardly Highway Rat for you to colour!
Highway Rat Poster

Download a free Highway Rat poster.
Highway Rat Sneak Peek

Recent reviews

emerald234

I read this book in Book Week and it was so funny! If you haven’t read it , I highly recommend that you check it out.

6 March 2016
Book-Club-Review-Team

I realy enjoyed The Highway Rat, it is one of my favorite books.

My favourite bit was at the end in the cake shop because I like cakes!

My least favourite bit was when the Highway Rat was eating all the food because it is coloured with dull colours.

Charlie, age 6

30 August 2011

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Authors

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson is one of the UK’s best loved authors, known for brilliant picture books like The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man. She was also the Children’s Laureate 2011-2013.

Awards

Julia has won many major book prizes, including the Smarties and Blue Peter Awards for The Gruffalo, the Blue Peter and Sheffield Children’s Book Prizes for Room on the Broom, the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for The Gruffalo’s Child and the Red House Award for Super Worm. Julia was also the Children’s Laureate 2011-2013.
Axel Scheffler

Axel is the illustrator of The Gruffalo and many other favourite picture books.

Awards

Axel has won many of the major book prizes, including the Smarties and Bluue Peter Awards for The Gruffalo, the Blue Peter and Sheffield Children’s Book Prizes for Room on the Broom, the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for The Gruffalo’s Child and the Red House Award for Super Worm.