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Title: I Was a Rat! by Kevin Hawkes, Philip Pullman ISBN: 0-440-41661-2 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Be careful what you wish for, it may come true!
Comment: I just completed a one afternoon read of "I Was a Rat." Couldn't put it down. I had the same experience with the Harry Potter books.
Philip Pullman is a master of satire, adventure, and mystery. This sequel to Perrault's Cinderella story is as much an adult book as an intermediate grade-school book as listed. Some call it Dickensian because of the many twisted misadventures the amnesiac hero experience as he stumbles through the streets of English society. It's fun to gradually recognize the familiar "Cinderella" story unravel as the answer to the puzzle of rat-boy's origin. After the Princess solves the mystery, confesses her doubts about her life with the Prince, and proves to be kind to those in need, I saw a similarity to the life of Princess Diana. See if you feel the same.
A moral lesson or two or three can be explored and embraced if your experiences and psycho/social needs warrant them. Can we believe what we see and hear? Should we trust our
own perceptions or those of the press and politicians? Is inclusion a safe policy? Shouldn't those 'out of the norm' be put away for the safety of all? What about old habits and innate genetic predispositions? Can an individual given love and patient guidance choose to overcome antisocial behaviors? Should we follow our hearts? - after all, Cinderella (now that we know what really happened) and Princess Diana did and look what happened to them.
Most of all, of course, it's unique, fast moving and fun. A great book to read to kids from 7 to 107.
Rating: 4
Summary: An exciting book for all ages
Comment: Let me start out by saying that this book was written excellently, and yet, he kept the story very short and not too wordy. "I was a Rat" is a book about a rat that turns into a boy. it starts out withh the rat-boy, whos name is Roger, knocking on the door of this old couple. The couple ask who he is and where he is from, but all he says is that he was a rat. So the couple take him in for the night. Since the boy was a rat, he didn't know anything about being a boy. So the whole story portrays a rat becoming a human in a comical and exciting narrative. Thos book was very humorous, yet serious in it's own way. i loved this book. A great read.
Rating: 4
Summary: i was a rat
Comment: I liked this book because it was a surprise all the way through the book and was it was hard to even guess what was going to come next. The funny part of the story for me was that no one knew that Roger had been a rat before except Mary Jane, Princess Aurelia. No one even believed him either.
The book, I Was A Rat, is about a little boy who claimed to have been a rat but not even one person believes him, they all think he is a little nutty. He has strange eating habits of rotten foods, cheese, leathers, and clothes. He gets lost and hides in the sewers and when he is found they think that he is non-human and they want to exterminate him. They decide to prosecute him and he loses so he is sentenced to extermination. The Princess finds this out and saves him because she knows that he is only human.
I would recommend this book to people of any age because this is an easy book to read and it is full of surprises and suspense. It is very funny sometimes. This is the perfect book for someone who wants a fun read.
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Title: Count Karlstein by Diana Bryan, Philip Pullman ISBN: 0375803483 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 22 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Clockwork : Or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman, Leonid Gore, Peter Bailey ISBN: 0590129988 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman, Saelig Gallagher ISBN: 0439224209 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Spring-Heeled Jack by D Mostyn, Philip Pullman ISBN: 0375816011 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman ISBN: 0375828192 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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