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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1971
Robert C. O'Brien (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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- PublisherScholastic
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1971
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- ASIN : B001J2KQTI
- Publisher : Scholastic; Later Printing edition (January 1, 1971)
- Item Weight : 5 ounces
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,136,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author

Robert C. O'Brien In real life, Robert C. O'Brien was Robert Leslie Conly. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended Williams College and graduated from the Universtiy of Rochester. While there he studied piano at Eastman School of Music, and at one time considered being a musician. Instead, he became an editor and writer for Newsweek magazine from 1941 to 1944, and for Pathfinder from 1946 to 1951. From 1951 until the time of his death in 1973 he was employed as a writer and editor by the National Geographic Magazine. He made his home in New York City before 1944 and in Washington, D.C. after that. He also had a home in Morgan County, West Virginia, after 1965, a place he loved and visited as often as he could. He was married and the father of one son and three daughters. His books include The Silver Crown, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, which won the Newbery Award, and A Report From Group 17. His last book, Z is for Zachariah was nearly completed at the time of his death; the last few chapters were written from notes by this wife and one of his daughters.
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I was first introduced to this book almost 35 years ago. As a recently immigrated child having difficulties adjusting to the school, I got into a great deal of trouble for acting out in the classroom.
A kind teacher who saw my potential assigned the book to me during a parent-teacher conference. It made a huge impact on me -- it might seem like hyperbole, but this book may well have shaped my life. It instilled a great hunger for reading, and a love of learning.
Over the years, I had forgotten the details of the story, but not its broad outlines. Two of the (to me) central themes: engineering and self-sufficiency, sticks with me to this day.
I now have my own kids. I have been increasingly concerned that the older one had not yet developed a sufficient interest in reading. I tried to get them started on this book, but was initially met with indifference when I tried to read the opening chapter to them. My wife did not back me up on this at first, either.
But I persisted, and after a couple more tries, reading little by little at first before bedtime, I got the boys interested in the story. The real breakthrough came a few chapters in, when the boys begged to keep going. By the time we finished the book, they were fully absorbed into the book - there were nights when I (or my wife, who had also gotten into the book) were reading for nearly an hour! Some nights, we simply read it out to them. Other nights, the boys stayed up to read the words along with us.
They have now asked to have other long-form stories. I think the boys have now graduated from short 10-page picture books.
One of the best part of all this came this morning, about two weeks after we had finished the book. The boys aunt and cousins came over to visit, and the older one excitedly shared this book, reading it out to his aunt!
In Chapter 5, it says, "1 inch pin" when it should read "linch pin".
Has "comer" for "corner".
In Chapter 6, there is a line that is supposed to be spoken by Mrs. Frisby, but is spoken by Jeremy, which makes the conversation at that point very confusing.
I'm using an older edition, so when I correct my students, or they say they don't understand, I have to look at their book to find there are errors.
No excuse!
I can't find a date for printing, but the cover is the same as an earlier print edition. I'm wondering where this one was really printed, or who actually proofread it.
I had to read this book for entering the 5th Grade . This book was very interesting from the scenes to the characters. It was about a widowed mouse who needed help to move because her son had become sick, so she made a deal with the rats of NIMH to help her. I think the author did a great job of having the characters narrate the story . This is my honest opinion for this book .
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh is my favorite book ever. Read it as a child multiple times and decided I wanted to relive The feeling of this book. This book does a great job at describing what true courage and taught me a lot as a child. The artwork is beautiful.
AMAZON Review:
Overall, Amazon did a good job while shipping this. It even came with a gold literary sticker. Had a tiny scratch, but the spine wasn’t even cracked or ripped which can sometimes happened during shipping. I wish it came with bubble wrap though. Worked good for me though!

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2021
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh is my favorite book ever. Read it as a child multiple times and decided I wanted to relive The feeling of this book. This book does a great job at describing what true courage and taught me a lot as a child. The artwork is beautiful.
AMAZON Review:
Overall, Amazon did a good job while shipping this. It even came with a gold literary sticker. Had a tiny scratch, but the spine wasn’t even cracked or ripped which can sometimes happened during shipping. I wish it came with bubble wrap though. Worked good for me though!

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I have just finished a Kindle edition and it has not diminished over the years. A great book for reading around to your children/grandchildren.


I really like this book because it’s about rats and very few books main characters are rats or mice.

