by Tor Seidler · Farrar Straus & Giroux · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780374462048
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«A Rat's Tale» is the children's novel by Tor Seidler, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in paperback (187 pages, in English).
Montague Mad-Rat is a young artist rat living beneath the streets of New York. One afternoon in Central Park he meets the little rat Isabel Moberly-Rat, and their friendship pushes him to try to save his community from an extermination campaign, which requires him to understand himself and his lazy uncle.
First volume of the Rat's Tale series, with illustrations by Fred Marcellino, published in 1990.
Children and young readers aged 9 to 12, with a reading level of 4th to 6th grade.
Tor Seidler is an American author of children's literature. Many of his books feature anthropomorphic animals. Mean Margaret was nominated for a National Book Award, The Wainscott Weasel was named a Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association, and A Rat's Tale was named Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. In 1998, A Rat's Tale was adapted into a puppet film by Augsburger Puppenkiste and distributed by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment. 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios planned to adapt The Wainscott Weasel into a movie, which started development in 2003. However, Fox shelved the concept in 2006.
