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The Highway Rat

by Julia Donaldson

Ages 3–6 Reading age 6 Picture book Set in outdoors and wild places funnyrhyming

A rat robs every traveller on the road of their buns and clover, until a clever duck leads him into a cave and leaves him there.

A story about animals and a grown-up villain, funny and rhyming in tone. We would put it with children of 3–6, and at a reading age of about 6 for reading alone.

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