A Favourite Quote: There was a smell of dampness in the air as the frosted ground thawed, a smell of things getting ready to grow.

If you are looking for a specific brand of children’s book that is simultaneously wholesome, while containing legitimate sci-fi horror elements, then look no further than Mrs. Meeting the owl riveted me in the book and 1982 film but nothing awed me more than a widow making discoveries about her husband, Jonathan. Even better than I remembered, and now I have to read the sequel to find out what happened to everybody. She is just a regular mouse but her love is her strength and I was surprisingly very moved by her adventures.When this happens, when a mouse runs past my foot while out in the yard, or, Heaven forbid, comes anywhere near the structure of our house, my screams often sound like the sound effects from the famous shower scene from Psycho. Normally she would move her family, but Timothy would not survive the cold trip to their summer home. His haunting young adult novel Z FOR ZACHARIAH was completed posthumously by his wife, Sally, and daughter, Jane, using the author's notes. This is probably the book that started me off on my lifelong love of fantasy, together with Watership Down.

Her son Timothy falls ill with pneumonia just as the farmer begins planning for spring plowing, which will destroy their home. Frisby just happens to hear the humans talking about drastic things they were going to do and when they were going to do them.

In a paper titled "The Critical Reader in Children's Metafiction", literary scholar Joe Sanders wrote that the book's emphasis on the rats' abilities to read mirrors the "growing reading abilities of the novel's own target audience".

Then, having had the book lying around our flat recently, my dad picked it up one visit and started reading . Justin and Nicodemus make reference to "the wives," who are certainly shown as capable and industrious, but don't really have a part to play in the book. A group of rats, led by one named Jenner, rejected this plan and left the nest at some point before Frisby's arrival.

The rats of NIMH come up with a brilliant solution to Mrs Frisby's problem but the rats are in danger too, and little by little Mrs Frisby discovers their extraordinary past . He also had a home in Morgan County, West Virginia, after 1965, a place he loved and visited as often as he could. Unraveling as a story within a story, there are a lot of really interesting characters presented who each provide missing pieces for the “secret” storyline, and/or serve to better contextualize the greater world of sentient animals living on the farm.