I Was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers

Resumen del libro

Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey, this intriguing and exciting tale of chance and misfortune by multi award-winning Philip Pullman, is perfect for readers young and old. I was a Rat! Roger insists, and insists . .

. In fact, when Bob the cobbler and his washerwoman wife, Joan, find the young boy abandoned on their doorstep, these are the only words he says. And he does have ratty behaviour, it's true.

Staying with Bob and Joan, however, Roger learns quickly to behave more like a human child. They try to find his parents, but the orphanage, police and hospital all have nothing on their records about a lost boy in the city. What is the truth? As more and more people find out about Roger the mysterious rat-boy he faces more and more danger.

But sometimes help comes from the most unexpected of places . . .

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Philip Pullmanx{0026}lt;/b . Norwich, Inglaterra. 19 de octubre de 1946. Estudió en el Exeter College de Oxford. Tras una novela de ciencia ficción publicada en 1978 decidió especializarse por fin en la novela infantil y juvenil mientras trabajaba para el Westminster College de Oxford. Su primer gran éxito le llegó en 1995 con la publicación de x{0026}lt;b x{0026}lt;i La brújula doradax{0026}lt;/i x{0026}lt;/b , primera parte de una serie de gran éxito en todo el mundo y que fue llevada al cine.x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p A lo largo de su carrera, x{0026}lt;b Pullmanx{0026}lt;/b ha recibido numerosos premios, como la x{0026}lt;b Carnegie Medalx{0026}lt;/b , el x{0026}lt;b Premio Guardian de Literatura Infantil y Juvenilx{0026}lt;/b o el x{0026}lt;b Memorial Astrid Lindgrenx{0026}lt;/b .x{0026}lt;/p