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"Sometimes the smallest friends can make the biggest difference."

Cinderella's Rat can be used in the classroom to explore different perspectives in storytelling, encouraging students to consider how minor characters impact the main narrative. Additionally, it provides a fun opportunity for creative writing, where students can rewrite classic tales from the viewpoint of other overlooked characters.

Cinderella's Rat by Susan Meddaugh reimagines the classic Cinderella story from the perspective of her loyal rat friend. As Cinderella prepares for the royal ball, the rat feels overlooked but is determined to help her against the challenges posed by her stepfamily. Using his cleverness, he aids Cinderella in achieving her dreams. This fun twist highlights themes of friendship, loyalty, and the importance of every character, no matter how small.

Orris is a curmudgeonly rat who must decide between self-protection & mercy when an owl gets trapped near Orris‘s nest. What sways him is literature, or, reading, to be more exact. His conscience has been built up by fables like the lion & the mouse and the slogan from a treasured can of sardines. I love what that implies about the nests we make around ourself & how they can remind us of our better selves when faced with a crisis. Sweet & clever.

This was ok. Not as humourous as I remember of the other (few) books I‘ve read by Pratchett. I hate footnotes, though, and even more so in fiction, but Pratchett uses them. Luckily, there were not many in this book

Read in March.

This is a reread from my childhood and I loved it all over again. It will be one of the books in my nephew‘s birthday pile.

I loved how characters were pretty nicely fleshed out, not too common thing in this genre.

Atmosphere was horrid! I could really feel the horror and fear that characters were feeling. Ending was also great xD

#SeriesLove23

This is a pretty slow story. Overall, I‘m rating it ok, though. I‘m not thrilled about rats being poisoned at the border. None of the 4 were terribly likable or interesting. I was a child in 1979, so some of the 70s references (tv, music, etc) were kind of fun. Also, my grandparents, then parents sold farm equipment, so it was interesting for me to read about the different farm equipment, though this is unlikely to be of interest to many.

4✨I watched the movie as a kid so many times and never read the book. It was pretty much as epic as I remembered. Mrs Frisby has a sick child in their burrow and since her husband had passed away it was up to her to figure out how to protect him since the farmer was going to plow the field where they lived. This brave mama met with a crow, owl, rats, and the humans bent on exterminating them all. Definitely a book worth the Newberry Metal #roll100