I Was a Rat!..Or, The Scarlet Slippers: World Book Day (Winner of the Smarties Prize and the Carnegie Medal): World Book Day Edition

by Philip Pullman (Author), P. Bailey (Illustrator)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.26

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.40

  I WAS A RAT!' So insists Roger. Maybe it's true. But what is he NOW? A terrifying monster rampaging in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A money-spinning fairground freak? He is to Mr Tapscrew. A champion wriggler and a downy card? That's what Billy hopes. Or just an ordinary small boy, though a little ratty in his habits? Only three people believe this version of the story. Only one of them knows who Roger really is. And luckily a story about her can sell even more newspapers than one about a rat-boy ...