A wonderful non-fiction book on the history of the relationship between rats and people.

Well-written and organized. Full of interesting facts bridging biology, history, medicine, and anthropology. Long form on-fiction for middle grades.

i don't deal well with nonfiction

Marrin gives an overview of rats - from their evolution into their current form, to their role in history and the folk knowledge that surrounds them. Beautiful scratchboard illustrations highlighted with red, perfectly accompany the text. An excellent piece of nonfiction for children that is split up into chapters with descriptive titles, and includes sources and book recommendations (though no index).

Readers' Advisory: Death, disease, descriptions of dissection

Ellie read for our Family summer reading program. Picked up this book from the Beautiful Feet booth at GHC..krb 7/12/17

Really well done and well researched book on rats. Definitely learned a few things I did not know about. Still not sure whether to categorize this as an informational picture book or just an informational book.

Good example of nonfiction written for kids that you can breeze through as an adult and learn a lot. I read this alongside Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Rats are creepy and smart.

Great nonfiction read. I loved the author's hook! He starts the book by describing his own first rat encounter. Yikes! Oh, Rats is superb at detailing how rats both help and are a danger to humans. Completely gross and entirely right for middle schoolers!

I picked up this book to read to my younger sister, who is currently curious about my own pet rats (and well.. my obsession with the animal.)

Predictably, this book is a little out of date now, and carries some slightly inaccurate information, but it can be fun to use to teach little ones how to asses information, and how, even the best research can become out of date.

This was so awesome! Rats! My kids fell in love with it...made teaching nonfiction so easy. Its a picture book, but its complex. Was our mentor text for nonfiction.

More information than you'll probably ever want to know about rats, but easy and fun to read nonetheless

Don't read this book if you want to know the truth about rats. UGH. Tells the history, the fibs and where are the rats now. No real pictures, just drawings. The author gives lots of interesting facts on each page.