Mrs frisby and the rats of nimh Penguin random house children's uk (Penguin Random House Children's UK)

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A fabulous adventure for children aby Robert C. O'Brien about super-intelligent rats. They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret...Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home.

But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in the unexpected form of a group of mysterious, super-intelligent rats. But the rats are in danger too, and little żeby little Mrs Frisby discovers their extraordinary past...Robert C.

O'Brien was, in private life, Robert Conly, senior assistant editor of National Geographic Magazine where he worked for over twenty years. He wrote three books for children and one for adults and won the Newbery Medal for Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, filmed as The Secrets of Nimh.

Robert C. O'Brien died in 1973.Also available in A Puffin Book: Goodnight Mister Tom and Back Home żeby Michelle Magorian; Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little And The Trumpet Of The Swan by E. B. White; The Borrowers by Mary Norton; Stig Of The Dump aby Clive King; Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D.

Taylor; A Dog So Small żeby Philippa Pearce; Gobbolino żeby Ursula Moray Williams; Carrie's War by Nina Bawden; Mrs Frisby and The Rats Of Nimh aby Richard C O'brien; A Wrinkle In Time żeby Madeleine L'engle; The Cay aby Theodore Taylor; Tarka The Otter by Henry Williamson; Watership Down żeby Richard Adams; Smith aby Leon Garfield; The Neverending Story aby Michael Ende; Annie żeby Thomas Meehan; and The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett.