Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Short Review: I picked this up because I had very vague memories of the movie (which I think I only saw once when it first came out over 30 years ago.) The basic storyline is the same (I went back and looked up the differences after I finished the book). Mrs Frisby is trying to keep her family together when one of her children gets sick. The rats of NIMH are escaped from a lab where they became intelligent and long lived as the result of an experiment. But the movie and book diverge because the movie is about magic and the book is about engineering and social planning.

The book is good and worth reading, but slow. And the slowness is accentuated by a very slow narrator with lots of long pauses.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/rats-of-nimh/