An intriguing and exciting tale of chance and misfortune from Philip Pullman, sumptuously repackaged with new illustrations. When a small boy turns up on the doorstep of old Bob the cobbler and Joan the washerwoman, all he can tell them is 'I was a rat!' But who is he really, and where has he come from? A wonderful, funny, surprising and sharply-observed re-telling of CINDERELLA