NIMH was a real place and their rat experiments were way darker than the book, movie or your nightmares depicted! Frisby and the Rats of NIMH [Robert C. O'Brien, Zena Bernstein] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Some extraordinary rats come to the aid of a mouse family in this Newbery Medal Award-winning classic by notable children's author Robert C. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH reviews from parents on Common Sense Media. Become a member to write your own review. Oct 28, 2016. The deeper book I actually wanted to talk about is a Newberry Medal winner by Robert C. O'Brien: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Have you read it? This is a chapter book (233 pages). The story is too complex to do it justice here, but to set the stage: Mrs. Frisby is a field mouse widow who lives on a farm.

Contents • • • • • • Story [ ] In Racso and the Rats of NIMH, the Rats of NIMH have developed a self-sustaining community in Thorn Valley, where they are completely isolated from humanity. Romanian Map Ets 2 Download Torent For Pc there. Timothy Frisby, the youngest son of Mrs.

Frisby, travels from his family's home to Thorn Valley. (Although his mother is an ordinary mouse, Timothy has inherited the extremely high intellect and long lifespan of his father, NIMH escapee Jonathan.) During his trip, Timothy meets Racso, the son of Jenner (a rat of NIMH introduced in first book who is widely considered to be a traitor). Timothy and Racso arrive at Thorn Valley, but while Timothy integrates and begins receiving the same accelerated education as the rat children, Racso, coming from a colony of savage urban rats, has trouble adjusting to life in a cultured town of rodents. Racso is also burdened by his family history, as his father deserted the rats' previous colony, placing them in danger of extinction. Life in Thorn Valley is suddenly threatened when humans begin planning to build a dam there, flooding the entire area. Racso, Timothy, and the entire rat colony must observe and sabotage the dam construction before the valley is underwater.

Connections to previous works [ ]. Racso and the Rats of NIMH book cover Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH [ ] Racso and the Rats of NIMH is a direct sequel to the -winning book by Jane Leslie Conly's late father,. Conly wrote her sequel long after O'Brien's death in 1973, so even though Conly's book attempts to answer many of the open-ended questions posed by the original, it is still Conly's work and not O'Brien's.

One of the most anticipated events of the first book was the possibility of Mrs. Frisby's children (Teresa, Martin, Timothy, and Cynthia) having grown up to visit the rats themselves and partake in adventures of their own. Within this book, however, only Timothy is shown as having actually left for Thorn Valley. Teresa and Cynthia are still at home, and Martin has started a family of his own. While it ties up this plot point cleanly, many readers criticized this, feeling that the other children had much potential and deserved more exploration.

Another question from the first book that Conly chose to answer relates to the fate of Justin, one of the rats who was a major character in the first book. In the end of the original story, O'Brien hints that Justin sacrificed his life when he went back to rescue a fallen rat. However, Conly chose to keep Justin alive and well in her sequel. Another subject in which more information was brought to light was that of Jenner.