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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
by Robert C. O'Brien
I haven't read this since I was about 10 and I remember being confused about why the main character's name is "Mrs. Frisby" instead of "Mrs. Brisby" like in the Don Bluth film.
It was really cute, though not nearly as dark as I expected from the adaptation. A huge portion of this tiny book is devoted to the rats themselves and how they gained intelligence through injections at the lab. While I think I prefer the emotional impact of the animated movie, this was still an enjoyable light read. One thing that I noticed, however, is that Mrs. Frisby seems to be just as intelligent as many of the rats, taking away the feeling that they were as "different" as they claimed. She also narrated using words like "school," "firefighters," and other human terms that I doubt would have migrated into a regular field-mouse's vocabulary.
It was really cute, though not nearly as dark as I expected from the adaptation. A huge portion of this tiny book is devoted to the rats themselves and how they gained intelligence through injections at the lab. While I think I prefer the emotional impact of the animated movie, this was still an enjoyable light read. One thing that I noticed, however, is that Mrs. Frisby seems to be just as intelligent as many of the rats, taking away the feeling that they were as "different" as they claimed. She also narrated using words like "school," "firefighters," and other human terms that I doubt would have migrated into a regular field-mouse's vocabulary.