Author(s): Russell Hoban
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 272
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Language: English
Date Published: 2015-11-05
Dimensions: 135 x 180 x 20mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Illustrations:

'What are we, Papa?' the toy mouse child asked his father. 'I don't know,' the father answered. 'We must wait and see.'

So begins the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clockwork rules and are themselves broken. Thrown away, then rescued from a dustbin and repaired by a tramp, they set out on a dangerous quest for a family and a place of their own - the magnificent doll's house, the plush elephant and the tin seal they had once know in the toy shop.