The Tale of One Bad Rat (Hardcover)

from LeafingLight

Grade 9-12. Although readers rarely find stories about sexual abuse to be heart-warming, Talbot manages to create a strong and endearing main character in this fictional graphic novel. The story begins as the main character, Helen, is running away from home. As the story continues, readers get a ...

from joeydag

I often pick up a graphic novel when I walk by where they are on display at the Santa Clara City Library at Central Park. There are so many I usually let a cover or a title draw me to borrow a book. This cover drew me because Neil Gaiman wrote a foreword for it and it is an odd cover. It turns ou...

from JapaG

The Tale of One Bad Rat is a very good graphic novel: It has a deep and meaningful story, amazing art, and a purpose. It follows in the footsteps of Maus in that it uses fantastical elements to tell its very important story. This book makes you think.

from clfisha

Beautiful in art and also plot this is a tale of abuse and runaways and how one teenage girl overcome them. It is also a tale of how fantasy touches reality and how we find role models in unlikely places. The story is done well and the characters are wonderful, especially our heroine. The darker,...

from iftyzaidi

This was a powerful and moving graphic novel. I had not heard of it before, but Bryan Talbot comes highly recommended and I picked it up based on the high praise I've heard of his other work. The story is about Helen, a girl who runs away from her abusive father and unloving mother and ends up ho...