- Fiction, Mice, Rats, Juvenile fiction
Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous young rat Racso as together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Jane Leslie Conly
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Harper & Row, HarperTrophy
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780435129705
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“Mrs. Frisby, a brown field mouse, hummed softly to herself as she folded her son Timothy's clothing: a sweater, a jacket, a red scarf.”
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