TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Benjamin
AU  - Taylor,Helen J.
TI  - The song of the ship rat
SN  - 1775430480
U1  - 428.6 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Auckland, N.Z.
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Rats
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - Stories in rhyme
N1  - Picture story book for children
N2  - "About a rat that has spent its life aboard a ship that has travelled the world. It tells of far-off lands and dangerous encounters, in particular with the dockside cat Tom Strangler (which, it is implied, resulted in a mortal end for his friend Molly). The rat has now grown old and returned ashore for his last days - to realise that you can take the rat off the sea, but a ship rat he will always be"--Publisher information. Suggested level: junior
ER  -