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He finds Foskins' corpse being devoured by rats of unusually great size. He kills them and discovers the rats' alpha; a white, hairless obese rat with two heads. Harris kills the creature with an axe in a fit of rage. The epilogue indicates that one female rat survived the purge by being trapped in the basement of a grocery shop. It gives birth ...
A white rat who is befriended, and used for evil, in this 1968 horror novel; also appears in the film adaptation Willard and the 2003 remake Willard. Surfer Paul Zindel: Rats: A white pet of Sarah and Michael McGraw who becomes the leader of the mutant rats and introduces them to music and dance. Templeton E. B. White: Charlotte's Web
Mice feature in some of Beatrix Potter's small books, including The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904), The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse (1910), The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918), and The Tailor of Gloucester (1903), which last was described by J. R. R. Tolkien as perhaps the nearest to his idea of a fairy story, the rest being "beast-fables". [3]
Robert Val Guthrie was born in Chicago on February 14, 1932, but moved to Lexington, Kentucky, when his father became the principal at Dunbar High School. [1] Living in segregated Kentucky, Guthrie went to Black schools, Black churches, and had friends only in the Black community. [3]
The book opens with Amazing Maurice (a sentient cat), a group of talking rats (the Clan), and the human boy Keith travelling in a mail coach to a small town called Bad Blintz. The group plans to enact a scheme they have used many times before, where in the rats pretend to infest the town and Keith poses as a rat piper to lead the "vermin" away ...
The rats trying to turn Tom Kitten into a roly-poly pudding. Tom Kitten is a young cat who lives with his mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, and sisters, Moppet and Mittens, in a house overrun with rats. Her children being an unruly bunch, Mrs. Tabitha puts Moppet and Mittens in a cupboard in order to keep them under control, but Tom Kitten escapes ...
Books about mice and rats (3 C, 1 P) C. ... Pages in category "Mice and rats in literature" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Just William is the first book of children's short stories about the young school boy William Brown, written by Richmal Crompton, and published in 1922. The book was the first in the series of William Brown books which was the basis for numerous television series, films and radio adaptations.