Life in the Rat Kingdom

This book takes the philosophy of morals and ethics and makes it easy enough for children to understand why they should be good. The reading level is simple but like many Disney movies the content is sophisticated enough to keep adults entertained. Although the primary audience is Children 6-16 years old, adults should read it too. Give me an afternoon of pleasant easy reading and I will give you thought provoking ideas to ponder for life.

The story line keeps moving along as the main Character Gentle Rat loses her idyllic life in the country to a swarm of locusts. The rats flee to the edges of the rat kingdom into the big city in the distance to find safety. Here they discover that the beliefs they were raised assuming were universal are not as common as they thought. The main character has to learn to navigate her way through a complex world that wants to pull her down into the darkness. She must figure out how to return to the light and the good life she left behind. How does a good girl find a way to live among a bad world?

The journey is intriguing and will be easily relatable to your own life. We all have to interact with people with wildly different beliefs than we have. Find out how Gentle Rat handles it.