Barbara Dean

Rattalia's Birthday Stories Barbara Dean Revised edition

Rattalia's Bedtime Stories is a collection of short children's stories about the adventures of Ratty and Mouse and their friends. When Ratty and Mouse fall asleep at night they journey into the world of dreams to meet Oliver and Stanley, their friends, who know everyone that lives in the dreamtime; the fairies, the gnomes, the giants, and the world where the childrens stories live. The four companions go on many magical adventures to wish for 'good things to happen' to everyone they meet. Ratty & Mouse make many new friends along the way and join in the celebrations for everyone's birthday as they journey through the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Ratty learns to play the piano that she purchases while on holiday with Mouse. And many moons later when she and her love, Roger Rat, have little ones of their own Ratty teaches them to play the piano too. They would sing and dance around the piano and Ratty would tell them stories about Mouse, Oliver and Stanley and the friends they had met on their adventures in the dreamtime.