This book took me a few days to read and the first night after I started it I had a nightmare about something similar to the happenings in the book. I was recommended this book to me by my Dad who absolutely loves it. Between 1989 and 1990, I took some additional college courses in hopes of getting a teaching certificate. That all went for naught when we moved to California. I did take three courses at The College of William and Mary that I loved, and I'm grateful I had the opportunity to experience. Being a big fan of Stephen King and the horror genre, a family friend told me about James Herbert, I was intrigued so looked him up and thought I'd start with his first novel, The Rats, I wasn't disappointed.

Seriously, can you imagine the city of London being infested with large deadly rats that like to eat humans and animals?! Eek, eek!!Williamson, J.N., ed. (1988). The Best of Masques. New York City: Berkley Books. ISBN 978-0-425-10693-8. The third was a children's literature class taught by a school librarian. Although her main job was in an elementary school, she was qualified to be a college professor.

After O'Brien's death in 1973, his daughter Jane Leslie Conly wrote two sequels to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. [7] Plot summary [ edit ] Cawley, John (October 1991). "The Secret of N.I.M.H.". The Animated Films of Don Bluth. Image Pub of New York. ISBN 0-685-50334-8. Do you like rats? Well, you are certainly not going to love them more after this one. Nasty, gruesome, gory, just excellent. A few anticlimactic chapters, but other than that. Ratness perfection. It's everything you can expect from a rat horror novel. And then add some!I think it was my second-grade teacher who read this to us in class, like a chapter a day, or something. The epilogue indicates that one female rat survived the purge by being trapped in the basement of a grocery shop. There, it gives birth to a new litter, including a new white two-headed rat. a b Plint, Alec (21 March 2013). "20 things you didn't know about James Herbert". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 21 March 2013. In 2009, Paramount Pictures set Neil Burger to write the script and Cary Granat to produce the film based on the book. [14] Nothing has materialised since and the rights to the book lapsed. This is an interesting introduction to science-fiction for young readers. I mean rats and a few mice with special intellectual properties that want to build their own successful community... What's not to be interested in? The story has aged really well because there isn't anything to date it, like mentioning popular fashion choices of the time, so really anyone can read it.

Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.Absolutely no disappointment here! For those who don't know the story, Mrs. Frisby is a field mouse with four children. Her son Timothy gets pneumonia and cannot be moved from their winter home. The problem is that the farmer is about to plow the fields. If Mrs. Frisby doesn't find a solution about what to do for Timothy then he will die. In addition, the author is at pains to tell us that he does not like rats and thinks they're disgusting. He exhibits a strange squeamishness, even after spending many hours watching rats. As someone who does feel a level of compassion and interest in rats as animals, I found his attitude tiresome. He seemed concerned that the audience might actually think he liked his subjects. I saw “ The Secret Of Nimh” at a birthday sleepover party. If it was in grade 6, I was 11 years-old; sensitive enough to have compassion for sad elements and still a baby to be spooked by dark moments. It is this August that I finally read Robert C. O’Brien’s original book 38 years later. I afterwards watched my videotape with my spouse. We were touched but not blown away. It changed in fundamental ways from the storybook, which is unforgettable. We happen to be in the birthday party week-end of my 49th year, this November 2021!

If you’re doing the same at home, please imagine every time you read the word “rats” that it is delivered as it is in that song. It will make the review significantly more entertaining. This was one of my all-time favorite books when I was a kid; I must've read it eight times. So I was pleased to find that it holds up well, and I still found it very entertaining (although it seemed a shorter). I did notice some things that I don't think really registered when I was younger. For one, I was thinking as I read that Mrs. Frisby is a pretty unusual character for a children's book. She's an adult, which is not common to children's novels; usually the protagonist is the same age or a couple years older than the intended audience. And she definitely thinks like an adult; she notices things like how young Justin seems, worries about taking care of her family, misses her husband. It's kind of cool. Bird, Elizabeth (July 7, 2012). "Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results". Blog. School Library Journal. A Fuse #8 Production – via blog.schoollibraryjournal.com. This book was the winner of numerous awards including the 1972 Newbery Medal. [3] Ten years following its publication, the story was adapted for film as The Secret of NIMH (1982). [4] He was the subject of a This is Your Life programme in 1995, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the London Dungeon. [ citation needed] Reception [ edit ]

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I have given this 4 stars and did really enjoy this and I know in the future I would like to read this again, however there were a few points I would have liked adjusted. I wasn't sure on the time period. I thought maybe it was set around the time the book was written, but then looking at the story of Mary I thought that was set before the 70's so this confused me a bit and I would have liked that set.