An edition of The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965)

Mouse and the Motorcycle

Morrow Eagle Library Edition (46)

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An edition of The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965)

Mouse and the Motorcycle

Morrow Eagle Library Edition (46)

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.87 ·
  • 30 Ratings
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  • 13 Currently reading
  • 57 Have read

A young mouse named Ralph looked out of his mousehole in Room 215 of the Mountain View Inn. The New tenant of the room, a boy, was playing with a little motorcycle just the right size for a mouse. Ralph could hardly wait till the boy left the room. Hurriedly he scrambled up the telephone cord to the bedside table, where the motorcycle was parked. With growing excitement, Ralph mounted the handsome machine and grasped its handgrips. Suddenly the telephone rang, and the motorcycle with its rider rolled off the table into the metal wastebasket. Ralph was sure he was doomed to be thrown out with the trash. Instead, the mouse found an unexpected career as a motorcyclist opening up to him. Beverly Cleary's first excursion into fantasy is a real triumph in the world of children's books.
--front flap

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Morrow Junior Books
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English

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Subjects
transportation, juvenile fiction, readers, chapter books, animals, mice, humorous stories, hotels, People & Places, social themes, friendship, Juvenile works, juvenile audience, juvenile literature, Motion Pictures, Adapted for Television, ABC Weekend Specials, Motorcycling, Fiction, Hotels, motels, TV Movies, Humor (Fiction), Spanish language materials, Bars (Drinking establishments), Motels, Children's fiction, Mice, fiction, Large type books, Literature and fiction, juvenile, Motorcycles, Cycling, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Motorcycles, fiction, Hotels, motels, etc., fiction
People
Ralph S. Mouse, Keith Gridley
Places
Mountain View Inn, United States, Sierra Nevada, California

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Mouse and the Motorcycle
2015, Harper
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El ratoncito de la moto
2009, Rayo
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
2008-03, HarperCollins e-books
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
2007, HarperChildren's Audio
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
2000, Scholastic
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Mouse and the Motorcycle
1995?, Morrow Junior Books
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1991?, Turtleback (Avon Camelot)
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1991, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1977?, William Morrow & Company, W. Morrow
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1965, William Morrow & Company
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Table of Contents

The new guests --
The motorcycle --
Trapped! --
Keith --
Adventure in the night --
A peanut-butter sandwich --
The vacuum cleaner --
A family reunion --
Ralph takes command --
An anxious night --
The search --
An errand of mercy --
A subject for a composition.

Edition Notes

Series
Ralph S. Mouse
Copyright Date
1989

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/1J, [Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.C5792 Mo, PZ7.C5792

Contributors

Illustrator
Louis Darling

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Format
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ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27904727M
Internet Archive
mousemotorcycle00beve_0
ISBN 10
0688316980
ISBN 13
9780688316983
LCCN
65020956
OCLC/WorldCat
56351393
Alibris ID
9780688316983
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0688316980
Goodreads
54175276

Work Description

The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965. It is the first in a trilogy featuring Ralph S. Mouse, a house mouse who can speak to humans (though typically only children), goes on adventures riding his miniature motorcycle, and who longs for excitement and independence while living with his family in a run-down hotel.

The book was released as a selection of the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club (Intermediate Division) and won the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 1968.

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KEITH, the boy in the rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched as he entered room 215 of the Mountain View Inn.
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