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The Mouse and the Motorcycle

The Mouse and the Motorcycle
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Manufacturer: HarperCollins

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780380709243
ISBN: 0380709244
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 1990-09-01
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: 1990-09-01
Studio: HarperCollins
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Editorial Reviews:

"Boy!" said Ralph to himself, his whiskers quivering with excitement. "Boy, oh boy!" Feeling that this was an important moment in his life, he took hold of the handgrips. They felt good and solid beneath his paws. Yes, this motorcycle was a good machine all right.

Ralph the mouse ventures out from behind the piney knothole in the wall of his hotel-room home, scrambles up the telephone wire to the end table, and climbs aboard the toy motorcycle left there by a young guest. His thrill ride does not last long. The ringing telephone startles Ralph, and he and the motorcycle take a terrible fall - right to the bottom of a metal wastebasket. Luckily, Keith, the owner of the motorcycle, returns to find his toy. Keith rescues Ralph and teaches him how to ride the bike. Thus begins a great friendship and many awesome adventures. Once a mouse can ride a motorcyle ... almost anything can happen!




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Summary: The mouse and the motorcycle
Comment: My son is 10 years old and loves this series of books. I normally have hard time getting him to read. He has read each of these books at least 3 times or more.

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Summary: Thumbs Up!
Comment: I would give this book a thumbs up.

I would share this book with my friend because he likes motorcycles.



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Summary: Thumbs Up!
Comment: I would give this book a thumbs up.

I would share this book with my friend because he likes motorcycles.



Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: Thumbs Up!
Comment: I would give this book a thumbs up.

I would share this book with my friend because he likes motorcycles.



Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: Plot! Character! Action!
Comment: This book is a rare treasure, perfectly pitched to read aloud to my five-year-old boys.

First, it's a lovely tale, perfectly combining gentle, humourous real world observation (hotels, vacuum cleaners) with just enough fantasy elements to keep childish imagination tantalised (a talking mouse! who rides a motorbike!).

Most appealing of all are Cleary's full, three-dimensional characters - just as I remember from my own earth-shattering discovery of Ramona decades ago. You can't help but relate to a mouse who experiences envy, shame, and guilt - and thereby reflects a real-world humanity that is either entirely absent. or treated ham-fistedly in so many other books for this age. More than adding to our enjoyment of the story, I loved the fact that this quality introduces my children to what literature can be - not merely a diversion, but a call to reflection, showing you the ordinariness of your foibles, and the possibilites for redemption.

Then of course (of greater interest to them than to me) was the action. The machine-centric obsession, the necessity of speed and bravery, the near misses - all the heroic theatrics close to most young boys' hearts.

I wish I'd bought the whole trilogy at once. We will return to this book many times.


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