false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166065688m/9822.jpg 9822 42 There's something very strange about the rats living under the rosebush at the Fitzgibbon farm. But Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with a sick child, is in dire straits and must turn to these exceptional creatures for assistance. Soon she finds herself flying on the back of a crow, slipping sleeping powder into a ferocious cat's dinner dish, and helping 108 brilliant, laboratory-enhanced rats escape to a utopian civilization of their own design, no longer to live "on the edge of somebody else's, like fleas on a dog's back."<p> This unusual novel, winner of the Newbery Medal (among a host of other accolades) snags the reader on page one and reels in steadily all the way through to the exhilarating conclusion. Robert O'Brien has created a small but complete world in which a mother's concern for her son overpowers her fear of all her natural enemies and allows her to make some extraordinary discoveries along the way. O'Brien's incredible tale, along with Zena Bernstein's appealing ink drawings, ensures that readers will never again look at alley rats and field mice in the same way. (Ages 9 to 12) <I> 839692 1971 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH total:8430|5:3188|4:3374|3:1573|2:240|1:55| 8430 34690 9822 575 5 3 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Mon Jul 02 14:18:29 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 09:25:06 -0700 2007 The story is about an underground society of rats that escaped from a laboratory (NIMH). ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Feb 27 14:17:40 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 14:17:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 20:15:13 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 20:25:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri May 12 00:00:00 -0700 1978 Mon Jan 12 08:42:09 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 11:57:40 -0800 2009 many more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 08 04:31:43 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 15:45:47 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 04:31:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 09 22:32:25 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 22:32:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 09:35:43 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 09:59:08 -0800 2009 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. The book is very old, and in fact won the 1972 John Newbery Medal Award. The book is very well thought-out and has a unique writing styl...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 21 17:56:48 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 18:04:30 -0700 2009
Mrs. Frisby is a widower among mice, left with a sick child and questions from her husbands strange life that were never fully answered. But when she is is refered to ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 14:30:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 14:30:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 20:46:55 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 11:10:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 21:33:41 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 19:43:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 19:39:11 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 19:31:01 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Oct 04 10:43:54 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 10:48:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 07:47:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 18:24:02 -0700 2009 The Frisby's winter home- a conveniently positioned cinder block-- is located in a farmer's garden. The spring has arrived, which means the plow will till the soil soon, an...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 18:19:15 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 18:57:03 -0800 2008
So the movie freaked me out as a kid. Remember the characters being electrocuted and/or stuck by light...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 24 12:25:26 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 12:30:58 -0700 2009 Having loved for years Don Bluth's film version of the story, I was well acquainted with the nuances of the plot, but still Robert C. O'Brien managed to as...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jul 22 22:43:01 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 22:43:20 -0700 2008
I hadn't read this book probably since middle school and it all came back to me and it was still just as beautiful. I heart Nicodemus.]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 13:00:22 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 13:00:22 -0700 2007
The movie is also very good, and scary, but they call her Mrs. Brisby for some damn reason.]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Aug 31 11:30:06 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 11:31:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat May 10 21:40:43 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 21:42:42 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9822