Archie the Pit Rat Hero

by David Muise • colour paintings by Louise Brooking-McDow • 8.5 x 11 • 24 pages

FOR EARLY READERS and those lucky enough to read with them, this new book displays beautiful paintings of a Cape Breton coal mine and the miners and rats that interact in that underground world. A friendship between Milton the Miner and Archie the Pit Rat leads to a heroic and believable rescue, and a little rat`s moment of fame.
    ALSO AVAILABLE IN FRENCH: Archie, le rat de mine—un héros