Walter

The Story of a Rat

Barbara Wersba author Donna Diamond illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Astra Publishing House

Published:20th Sep '12

Should be back in stock very soon

Walter cover

Two lonely creatures find that companionship is closer than they thought in this charming tale of friendship

This is the story of a writer and a reader. The writer is a person. The reader is a rat. They share an old house on Long Island, but have never met. How these two lonely creatures discover one another is the essence of this story.

"Those with a love of words will enjoy the way Wersba shows Walter sneaking up on a friendship with the elusive but observant author. Like Richard Kennedy's Come Again in the Spring (HarperCollins, 1976) or Randall Jarrell's The Bat-Poet (S & S, 1967), this book gives readers some writing to remember and a chance to view the world from a different perspective." --School Library Journal

* "A small but very nearly perfect gem." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Beautiful. . . . Moving and unpretentious. . . . Lovely." --Booklist

ISBN: 9781590789483

Dimensions: 210mm x 165mm x 5mm

Weight: 164g

64 pages