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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy)
by Robert C. O'Brien
from Aladdin

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A great book for young readers
  NIMH is a great book for young readers (11-13). The book is a great story about survival, sacrifice, and challenged me to root for a mob of rats.
  Mrs. Frisby is a very sympathetic character that shows that regardless of species in literature, moms are moms, and they'll do whatever it takes to take care of their family.
  I think that young readers will enjoy this book, but older teenage readers could balk at the subject rather wanting to read something more intuned to their interests.

• Insipid cover currently shipping
  The cover art shipping now (July '08) is the beige one in the alternate images -- a useless and dull cover compared with the exciting view of Mrs. Frisby and the crow Jeremy against blue on display at this page. I wish I'd bought this in a bookstore instead, and might have had another choice of cover art. At least the interior art is the excellent classic version.

• Sci-Fi Animals!
  I've read this book over and over again since I was a kid and it continues to be one of my favorites.
  O'Brien, who frequents the sci-fi-esque world, has totally translated it into a surprisingly belieavable world dominated by rats, crows, and other critters of the woodland. Fused with this is the concept of... lab rats, held in captivity by the very real National Institute of Mental Health.
  Simply put, this is a story about a widowed mother mouse who needs to help her family. It's charming and... more info

• Great Book for all ages!
  What a fabulous story! This is truly a book for animal lovers of all ages.

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