Ratty-Tatty sniffed and sniffed...

Oh, how we l-o-v-e Joy Cowley.
We think she's one of NZ's best children's authors. She originally started writing childrens books in the 1960's when one of her sons had difficulty learning to read. Ah, kiwi-ingenuity at its best.
When I was teaching in the classroom, I l-o-v-e-d reading her book Ratty-Tatty with the children.. and fifteen years later, she is still loved and adored in our home.

M4 and Daddy
looked at the trap.
They cried,
"That Ratty-Tatty is no good.
We would catch her if we could."

But they couldn't,

so they didn't.
Ratty-Tatty was too clever!