Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert O'Brien

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Title: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Author: Robert O'Brien Genre: Childrens Rating: 7/10 # pages: Audiobook Date read: January, 2008

Summary: 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."

Review: A sweet story for children that IMHO has many parallels to Watership Down, although obviously much simplified. I mostly read it because it's on so many "Top 100" lists, and must admit that which I thought it was sweet enough, I don't really get why it's on those lists when so many other (and in my opinion better) children books don't make it on the lists. But of course, it might have helped if I'd actually heard it while I was the target age (although isn't it a sign of a great book that even people outside the target age think it's great? But I digress...)

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I remember liking this book. I always thought that the sequal was better, though. The plot was a little more interesting, and some of the new characters in that one were well done.