Hannibal's Rat: It's Every Rodent for Himself!

by Geoffrey Guy

The Scratchbelly family dwell behind the skirting boards and under the floorboards of a human house. Sometimes, the humans resort to the ultimate rodent exterminator—a pussycat. When Scratchbelly's younger son gets spotted, the inevitable happens and a ghastly moggy by the name of Hannibal is drafted in. The only solution is to befriend the cat—and find him something else to sink his teeth into—like a rat. The race is on to find a rat for Hannibal, to keep the Scratchbelly dynasty alive and foraging.

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[RuneKirhan]

Read in French ("Comme un chat avec une souris").
What an underrated book ! It follows the adventures of Scratchbelly the mouse and his family who tries to protect themselves from the new arrival in the human family whose house their share : Hannibal, a cat and fierce mice hunter...
A nice little read !

[Amy]

I first read this book years ago when I was in high school I found it in my school library and I loved it, it’s a very underrated book, it has a great story fun characters and interesting plot, I’ve always loved books about anthropomorphic animals that still act as they would in the wild such as books like Watership Down. At the time of reading it I looked up about the author and saw that he had plans for future books in the series and I was excited to read more. I wanted to know more about the characters and what was next in store for them, but sadly I don’t think they will ever be published, still to this day years later I wish I were able to read them. I think it’s a great shame when books like this are left forgotten and hard to find available to buy.