In a desperate attempt to save her family, especially her youngest son Timothy, Mrs. Frisby is forced to venture into the Rose Bush in hopes that the Rats will be able to help her. She learns deep secrets about her husband's life before they met, and gains both an understanding about and relationship with the Rats of NIMH. Most importantly their assistance does help her and she is in return able to save them.
Bibliographic Citation:
O'Brien, R.C. (2006). Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. New York, NY: Aladdin Paperbacks.
My Impression:
I chose to read this book because when I was a little girl I loved to read stories where animals were the main characters. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH reminded me exactly why I loved to do so! I enjoyed this book so much, there is always something magical about real world animals living their own lives and solving their own problems and Robert C. O'Brien combines the reality of our world with the "reality" of the animals living on the farm. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a quality read that is just plain enjoyable.
Reviews:
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." 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.
Emile Coulter, Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Frisby-Rats-Aladdin-Fantasy/dp/product-description/0689710682/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
How to use this book in your library:
An idea from Scholastic- Create a Collage: Many mice and rats are characters in books and movies. Ask students to create a collage from magazines of the names of some of these critters that have made it big. Include the book or movie that they starred in underneath each character. This would be a great way for kids to share books they have liked with one another as well as ways for you as the librarian to share lesser known books!
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