Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIHM by Robert C. O'Brein
A review by Elleanore G Vance In my younger days, Mrs Frisby called out to me from a stack of books my high-school library was culling. I had permission from the librarian to take as many as I wanted; and I did! ( I crammed my locker full every day, and packed them all home stuffed in my backpack over the next several weeks until the charity shop came to pick up the ones I had yet to get to. I still mourn those stories lost to time) I read it that summer, as we crossed Lake Michigan aboard the S.S. Badger. I have read it several times since then, and each time something different stands out to me. I say this as a warning who might choose to read this as a bedtime book with the children in your life. Mrs. Jonathan Frisby is a field mouse, a recent widow and mother of three. Mrs. Frisby is adjusting to her widow-hood, when Timothy, her youngest, falls ill late in the winter. As he fails to improve, with Spring fast approaching, Mrs. Frisby seeks help from a friend of her husband. He p