Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Aladdin Fantasy)

O'Brien, Robert C

ISBN 10: 0812401204 ISBN 13: 9780812401202

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 1986

Synopsis

This 1972 Newberry Medal winner has delighted children and adults alike for decades, both as a million-plus copy bestseller and the popular animated film, The Secrets of NIMH. Now, for the millennium, this perennial favorite has an endearing new cover that will enchant both old fans and those with the pleasure of discovering the book for the first time.

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Product Description

Title: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH <>Binding: Prebound <>Author: RobertC.O'Brien <>Publisher: PerfectionLearning

Review

There's something very strange about the rats living under the rosebush in 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 civilisation 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) grabs 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 look at alley rats and field mice the same way again. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter

Edition details

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812401204
• ISBN 13: 9780812401202
• Binding: Library Binding
• Illustrator: Bernstein Zena
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 233