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Audrey
Sep 22, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: own-hard-copy, 2021-misc-books, mgm-challenge-aug2021, animal-fantasy
I read this several times as a kid. I was most fascinated by the experiments at NIMH (a real government organization!) and would read just those chapters over and over. It’s an intelligent book and expects young readers to understand it. It is not condescending to the young audience.

At fifty years old, the book shows traditional gender roles that some may find offensive. Yet Mrs. Frisby, a housewife mouse with no special enhancements from NIMH of her own, shows amazing courage, strength, and com ...more
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Jen from Quebec :0)
Mar 17, 2017 rated it liked it
Shelves: copies-i-own, read-the-audio-book, reading-challenge-books, color-challenge-for-book-covers, childhood-reads, classics-i-ve-read, aty-challenge, books-i-ve-been-putting-off, treasure-dig-challenge, foreign-authors
As a kid, I LOVED the animated film, 'The Secret of NIMH' and was looking forward to finally reading the book version....sadly, for once, the FILM was BETTER. Maybe because in the film, Jeremy the crow was a bigger personality, the owl was scarier, there was less dialogue about the rats escape from the lab (show, don't tell, Mr. O'Brien), etc etc. Mrs. Frisby was less bad-ass, and you don't get a sense of her kids as developed characters, either. What the book got wrong, the cartoon movie got RI ...more
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Zsa Zsa
Aug 18, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Sydney
Sep 23, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Ashleigh
Oct 02, 2011 rated it liked it
Vimaris
Nov 05, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Sarah
Nov 23, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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May 17, 2014 marked it as to-read
Carol
Oct 21, 2014 rated it really liked it
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Dec 26, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Jul 05, 2015 rated it it was amazing
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Feb 18, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Feb 21, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Aug 06, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Dec 18, 2017 marked it as to-read
Carrie
Apr 15, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Katie
Jun 13, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Oct 27, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Angie Bates
Jan 07, 2021 rated it liked it
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