I had heard of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, but
somehow got through my childhood without ever having read it. My 11 –year and 9-year old sons were reading
it for their youth book club this last month. I read it with 9-year old Daniel
in the evenings using the flip-flop technique.
I would read a page and then he would read one.
Mrs. Frisby is a widowed mouse with four young
children living in a field. Her youngest
son, Timothy is very ill and unfortunately it is time to move to summer
quarters before Farmer Fitzgibbon starts to plow his fields. Mrs. Frisby seeks help amongst her neighbors
and is told by a wise owl to get help from the Rats. When Mrs. Frisby meets the rats, she
discovers far more about them and her late husband than she had ever imagined.
Will they be able to save Timothy before the plow comes?
Daniel and I both greatly enjoyed the story as did
Kile as well. We had to have a
discussion about it after we all finished.
I fell asleep one night and couldn’t read further so Daniel took the book
and finished it himself that night, I had to catch up the next day to see how
it ended! It was a great heroic tale of
Mrs. Frisby and her love for her children, but the entire rats sequence was
very intriguing.
Daniel loved finding
out where they came from, but was a bit stressed out about the more suspenseful
parts of the novel. We still want to
know who the mysterious two rats were in the end! I really liked the ambiguous ending and the questions
of ethics and morality that permeated the story.
Overall, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a
wonderful fantasy novel that will delight readers of all ages.
Book Source:
The Kewaunee Pubic Library
I vaguely remember this from my childhood -- was it also a movie?
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