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The Highway Rat

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The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson, and Axel Scheffler

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By Julia Donaldson, and and, Axel Scheffler

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579 reviews

Beware of the Highway Rat. He’ll steal your food … and your heart!

Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s bestselling story is now available in a chunky board book format, perfect for babies and toddlers. The Highway Rat rides along the highway stealing all the travellers’ food. But a crafty duck and her mysterious sister soon put an end to his crooked ways!

Reviews

28 Jan 2025

I like the horse

04 Jan 2025

My favourite character was the duck because she tricked the Highway Rat and saved all the animals. I would recommend this book to someone else.

08 Sep 2024

That naughty rat!

08 Sep 2024

This book is good. The rat is cheeky but he’s not so clever.

04 Sep 2024

I enjoyed reading the Highway Rat, it was a good story

04 Sep 2024

I liked this book. The Duck was very brave and kind.

02 Sep 2024

The Highway Rat ate a lot of food

02 Sep 2024

The Highway Rat teaches you that sharing is an act of kindness and is caring.
The Highway Rat learnt the hard way after being unkind to take peoples food and leave them with nothing.

02 Sep 2024

I love the rhyming words and my favourite character is the horse.

31 Aug 2024

I like it when the duck saves all the food from the rat

30 Aug 2024

I really recommend this book to my friends

28 Aug 2024

my favorite character is the duck because he stoped the rat from getting food from town. i learnt that you can’t steal stuff from other people because its the wrong choice to make.

28 Aug 2024

I like the rat

28 Aug 2024

I liked this book. My favourite character was the rabbit with the clover. She was wearing a pink dress. My favourite part was when the duck tricked him and said there were biscuits and buns and there wasn’t. I would recommend this book.

28 Aug 2024

This book was a tale of a greedy rat who wanted everything for himself which didn't turn out that way at the end. Very clever book I liked it.

27 Aug 2024

The rat was mean in the beginning and nice in the end so it made me feel good

25 Aug 2024

I loved the cat and my favourite part was when the highway rat turned kind.

23 Aug 2024

Great story

20 Aug 2024

I liked the rhyming and that he had to pay or what he had done wrong

13 Aug 2024

Highway Rat is a baddie! Loved the story

08 Aug 2024

It’s okay

07 Aug 2024

I liked when the highway rat stole all the food and he got taught a lesson on kindness. I would recommend this book to someone else as I thought it was a fun read!

06 Aug 2024

“The highway rat wasn’t very good to his friends and ate all their food but his friends did get the food back. I like this book but I don’t like the highway rat he is mean”

06 Aug 2024

This is my favourite book and I love reading it

01 Aug 2024

The Highway rat would take food from everyone and leaves from the ants. The duck led him into a cave meanwhile when he was in the cave all the animals were having a big party.

31 Jul 2024

The rat is fat and eats all the food. I like the horse. I like to join in with the story.

26 Jul 2024

My favourite bit was when he found his way out of the echoey cave

25 Jul 2024

Like when the rat changed from being a thief and learned a lesson

25 Jul 2024

This is a fiction book and my favourite character was the horse because even though his boss was mean he was kind. It was a good story because all the good characters got their food back in the end and the rat turned nice.

22 Jul 2024

I liked when he ate all of everyone's food

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