Ratty's Big Adventure

<p><b>In this beautifully illustrated picture book from Lara Hawthorne, a mysterious creature from a secluded volcano crater explores the outside world for the very first time . . . but it is not what he expects it to be! Will his adventure teach him there is no place like home?</b><br><br>Ratty, an ENORMOUS woolly, vegetarian rat, lives deep inside the crater of an ancient volcano nestled in the rainforest. One day, he spies a delicious-looking fruit high in the treetops, and sets out to reach it. From this vantage point a spectacular view stretches before him - the world outside his mountain crater. <br><br>In this big outside world, Ratty imagines, the fruit must be <i>much sweeter</i>, the bird songs <i>more beautiful </i>and the other animals <i>far more interesting</i> and sophisticated, and so he sets off in search of better things. But when he is asked to attend a dinner party by a crocodile who seems just a bit <i>too</i> friendly, Ratty realises that perhaps there is no place like home after all.<br><br>Inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of Mount Bosavi, Papua New Guinea in which <b>over 40 new species of animals and plants </b>were identified, Lara Hawthorne seamlessly <b>combines story and fact</b> in this picture book which <b>celebrates the diversity of life</b>, and being thankful for what you have!</p>