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I was a rat! ; or, The scarlet slippers / Philip Pullman ; illustrated by Peter Bailey.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Branch	Status
JF PULL	Junior Fiction	Bankstown .	. Available .
JF PULL	Junior Fiction	Lakemba .	. Available .
JF PULL	Junior Fiction	Riverwood .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780241326350 (paperback)
Name	Pullman, Philip, 1946- author.
Title	I was a rat! ; or, The scarlet slippers / Philip Pullman ; illustrated by Peter Bailey.
Published	London : Penguin Books, 2018.
Published	©1999
Description	207 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes	Originally published: 1999.
Notes	Includes an excerpt from The firework-maker's daughter.
Summary	Standing in the moonlight was a little boy in a page's uniform . . . 'Bless my soul'! said Bob. 'Who are you?' When a small boy turns up on the doorstep of old Bob the cobbler and Joan the washerwoman, all he can tell them is 'I was a rat!'. But who is he really, and where has he come from? A wonderful, funny, surprising and sharply-observed re-telling of Cinderella.
Target audience note	9-12 years old.
Subjects	Shoes and shoe industry -- Juvenile fiction
	Boys -- Juvenile fiction
	Rats -- Juvenile fiction
	Magic -- Juvenile fiction
	Children's stories
Other Names	Bailey, Peter, 1946- illustrator.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Boys -- Juvenile fiction . Children's stories . Magic -- Juvenile fiction . Rats -- Juvenile fiction . Shoes and shoe industry -- Juvenile fiction . See Also: Children's literature . Fairy tales . Fiction . Storytelling . Authors: Bailey, Peter, 1946- . Pullman, Philip, 1946- .