Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey this intriguing and exciting tale of chance and misfortune by multi awardwinning 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 its 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 ratboy he faces more and more danger. But sometimes help comes from the most unexpected of places . . .