I forgot about the lab testing element of the plot, and even though it's done well and makes sense and is interesting and all that, it's still kind of depressing and takes up too much of the narrative's time. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH won numerous awards including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, Newbery Medal, and the runner-up National Book Award in 1972; the Mark Twain Award in 1973; the Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Readers' Choice Award and the William Allan White Children's Book Award in 1974. Frisby, a widowed field mouse who seeks to protect her children and home from destruction by a farmer's plow.

The successful house move allows the mouse family to remain so that Timothy has time to recover before moving to their summer home.Constance Vidor commented that "Conly's books continue her father' emphasis on the theme of social responsibility while weaving in new characters with more personal problems".

I snatched it up so fast, grabbing up from under my taller classmates, swiping like Swiper has never swiped.

We live just three houses down from a farm, so we frequently have the pleasure of hearing a goat bleat or having a curious horse reach their head over the fence for a quick nuzzle.