Winner of the 2014 Indie Reader Discovery Award for Childrens Fiction. Whisker is a cyclonesurviving circus rat with a troublesome tail and a boat load of luck. When a strange ship pulls him out of the ocean Whiskers new life as a Pie Rat apprentice begins. Welcome aboard the good ship Apple Pie a peculiar pastry ship where cannons shoot mouldy pies coloured pencils are used as peglegs and the champion swordsrat fights with two scarlet scissor swords. The Forgotten Map is the first instalment in the Pie Rat series for children age 8. It includes maps diagrams and character sketches. Fast moving passages of text take the reader on a swashbuckling adventure where danger and humour intertwine in true pirate fashion. The book takes a look at the meaning and importance of family through the desperate eyes of a young rat who has lost everything.