"The Scarecrow and His Servant" is the story of how one day old man Pandolfo, who was being annoyed by birds, made an excellent scarecrow. And then the incredible happened - from a lightning strike it came to life. And so the Scarecrow and his devoted servant, orphan Jack, set off on the road in search of luck and income, hoping to someday return to the Valley of Streams, which belonged to the Scarecrow. “I Was a Rat” is an echo of the fairy tale about Cinderella, which sounded in England in the 1920s. x years. Philip Pullman takes the famous plot in an unexpected direction. Along the way, he manages to laugh heartily at human hypocrisy and gullibility and eventually comes to a wonderful and completely justified ending.