Provides complete information on caring for a pet rat, includes information on selection, housing, feeding, training, handling, and keeping it healthy.

The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. Since its beginnings as a series of stories told to Kenneth Grahame's young son, The Wind in the Willows has gone on to become one of the best-loved children's books of all time. The timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger, brought to vivid life by Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, has delighted readers of all ages for more than...

Big Brown Bear is visited by a rat who wants to use one of his slippers for a bed.

Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, origins, various types, interaction with humans, and more of rats.

Pack rat who finds refuge from the crows in a scarecrow frightens the local children when the scarecrow begins creaking.

Mrs. Rat makes a career out of spying on her neighbors, but the tables are unexpectedly turned on her.

Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous young rat Racso as together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.

Willard has been picked on and pushed around his whole life and is a twentysomething man who still lives at home with his nagging mother. He works at a shipping company for a stern, authoritarian supervisor. When Willard becomes fascinated with a hidden nest of rats living in his decrepit home, they become both his friends and his aggressors. He sics them upon anyone who crosses his path. But one rat, Ben, isn't so amenable to Willard's orders, and...

"What happens when a cat meets a rat with a baseball bat?"--Dust jacket.

"In this book, Squeak the Mouse reveals how readers should go about choosing pet rats or mice, what supplies they will need, how to make a new pet rat or mouse feel at home, and how to properly care for pet rats or mice, including feeding, exercising, and keeping cages clean. Text is accompanied by clear, labeled photographs to further reinforce key concepts, and the use of an animal narrator also allows the book to be used to teach perspective"--...