Book description
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 by little Mrs Frisby discovers their extraordinary past . . .
Robert 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 O'Brien died in 1973.
