This delightfully imaginative tale is always a popular favorite among children. Mrs. Frisby, a field mouse who lives in a garden, must move her family before the farmer begins plowing. Will the rats of NIMH - a group of highly intelligent laboratory rats - help her find a solution to her dilemma?

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6 hours and 13 minutes
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Robert O’Brien
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Barbara Caruso
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May 22, 2012
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English
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Recorded Books
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B0085BK1TG
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	6 hours and 13 minutes
Author	Robert O’Brien
Narrator	Barbara Caruso
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	May 22, 2012
Publisher	Recorded Books
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0085BK1TG

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Robert and Mandie Anderson

Major Typographical Error

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2021

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Half a page of text is missing between pages 5 and 6 (in the 50th anniversary edition). It appears that the illustration on top of page 6 is covering half a page of text (or there's something else going on). Since this happens so early, when characters are being introduced, it's a fairly large issue.

I've contact the publisher and hope they fix this.

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Joseph C.

Powerful book - instills love of reading and learning

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2014

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I'll skip the details of the story and its writing, as other reviewers can attest to the quality of the book. Instead, I want to comment on how this book has the power to change a child's behavior and make him love books.

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!

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Awesome book!! All that grew up with the 80’s film, please read the book!!:)

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2018

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I grew up with the animated film from the early 80’s and picked up the book in grade school, but declined due to “not being like the movie”...years later as an adult, I appreciate the Book way more than the movie. The book is a more in depth story that Don Bluth changed quite a bit in the film. (Still enjoy the film, but not as much as the book!) This Book is a treasured gem for all ages whether young or old or for the young at heart!!:)

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Grip

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020

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Mrs.Frisby and the rats :

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 .

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Gandalf

I bought a set of books that has so many errors (examples below)

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2022

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I use this book every year as a novel study with my fifth graders. However, the edition that we recently purchased had several errors:

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.

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Kevin

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Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2021

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BOOK Review:
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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A. Roberton

Perfect to read aloud to Children

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2020

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first heard this story on the radio in the early 70s and felt a connection immediately. I remember getting the book and reading it a couple more times. The story is both well written and is able to draw the reader in. The characters are well rounded and when completed you want to know what happens next. For me the whole story is entertaining whilst being an insight into an aspect of life that we, as humans, seem to have forgotten.

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.

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Yanne

What a cool story!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2018

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I read this at junior school and remembered only that I'd loved it, so I wanted to re-read it. What a great story! Even as an adult I still love it.

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Nicola Landy

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2020

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Review written by Rebecca, aged 9.

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

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ASIMINA MATAFTSI

one of the best we've read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 5, 2019

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I read to my children every night for years now. They're 8 and 11, not native speakers (though quite fluent by now), and the three of us thoroughly enjoyed this book, absolutely loved it. It carried us away in the very sweet story of a loving mother mouse, her quest to save her children, and the extraordinary story of the rats that she came upon. It makes you think about how human we are or not, how clever we are or not, how important friendship is in our lives. And it filled us with warm feelings. And had its funny moments. And excitement. And at the end we couldn't put it down. Just brilliant

Mandy Rees

Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2019

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Read this as a child and loved it then, still as fantastic now over 40 years later. A simple tale but full of amazing ideas for future world plots. Fell in love with Justin and Nicodemus and the world of Mrs.Frisby. The ambiguity of who the two who were found at the end is a sharp pang of realism of how brutally unfair the world of humankind can be.

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