FUNNY, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND MOVING, THIS MUCH LOVED STORY IS A TRUE CLASSIC. _'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. 'HUGELY FUNNY, PROVOCATIVE, PATHETIC AND HEROIC.' _TLS_ 'BRILLIANTLY PLOTTED . . . A SPELLBINDER . . . IT HAS A STYLE THAT GLOWS AND CRACKLES.' _Spectator_