![]() ![]() Jonathan and Ages were the only two survivors of a group of eight mice who had been part of the experiments at NIMH and made the rats' escape possible. Their increased intelligence and strength allowed them to escape from NIMH and migrate to their present location on the farm. Their leader, Nicodemus, tells Frisby of the rats' capture by scientists working for a laboratory located at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the experiments that were performed on the rats, which increased the rats' intelligence to the point of being able to read, write and operate complicated machines, as well as enhancing their longevity and strength. They have technology such as elevators, have tapped the electricity grid to provide lighting and heating, and have acquired other human skills, such as storing food for the winter. Frisby is the widow of his old friend Jonathan, he suggests that she seek help from the rats who live in a rosebush on the farm.įrisby discovers that the rats have a literate and mechanized society. Frisby to an owl’s tree so that she can ask for help moving her family. On her way home, she saves the life of a young crow named Jeremy from the farmer’s cat, Dragon. Frisby’s late husband Jonathan, gives her some medicine for Timothy. Normally, the family would move to their summer home to avoid being uprooted, but Timothy is too ill to move. Her son Timothy falls ill with pneumonia just as the farmer begins planning for spring plowing, which will destroy their home. Frisby, a recently widowed mouse, lives with her four children in a cinder block, in a field belonging to a farmer named Mr. 2.3 Impact on American views of scientific technology.Īfter O’Brien’s death in 1973, his daughter Jane Leslie Conly wrote two more sequels to Mrs. Calhoun on mouse and rat population dynamics at the National Institute of Mental Health from the 1940s to the 1960s. The rats of NIMH were inspired by the research of John B. Frisby, a widowed field mouse who seeks to protect her children and home from destruction by a farmer’s plow. The novel centers around a colony of escaped lab rats–the rats of NIMH–who live in a technologically sophisticated and literate society mimicking that of humans. ![]() ![]() Ten years following its publication, the story was adapted for film as The Secret of NIMH (1982). This book was the winner of numerous awards including the 1972 Newbery Medal. The novel was published by the New York City publishing house Atheneum Books, which has been owned by Simon & Schuster since 1994. O'Brien, with illustrations by Zena Bernstein. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a 1971 children's science fiction/fantasy book by Robert C. First edition cover with Bernstein artwork.Ġ-2 (second Aladdin paperback edition, 1999) ![]()
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