- Juvenile fiction, Humorous stories, Fiction, Cuentos humorísticos
A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.
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Comic, classical in form, effortless and intimate.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Philip Pullman
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 175
- Publisher
- Gardners Books, Doubleday, Corgi Yearling
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English, Italian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780440864899
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“Old Bob and his wife, Joan, lived by the market in the house where his father and grandmother and great-grandfather had lived before him, cobblers all of them, and cobbling was Bob's trade too.”
Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, [*His Dark Materials*](/series/OL330755L/His_Dark_Materials), and his fictional biography of Jesus, *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ*. The first of *His Dark Materials* has been turned into the film The Golden Compass and the first two books from his Sally Lockhart series have been adapted for television. In 2008, The Times named Pullman in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Pullman
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