The Mouse and the Motorcycle
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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- I remember reading "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" in third grade. I immediately adopted the enthusiasm the mouse had for riding and I've been a motorcycle-riding fool ever since. I love that lean.
- As a child I read "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" countless times over. A forgotten part of my childhood right there.
- One of the fondest memories of my life will be my mother reading me "The Mouse And The Motorcycle" when I was just a chunk of a lad. For my entire life, my answer to "Who is your favorite living female author?" was Beverly Cleary. I feel that I, and the world, have been stripped of a little light today. We'll never recover from this loss, but I hope that we can rebuild in the precocious and excited spirit her books embody. Rest In Peace.
- I remember "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" well. That specific book started me on a life long reading journey. My elementary had a reading contest every year, and by the middle of 3rd grade I'd read everything Beverly Clearly wrote. Decades later reading them again to a niece, the memories were so strong I could put down the book and quote dialog exchanges from triggered memory. Damn she was a great writer.
- In the third grade I read a book called The Mouse and the Motorcycle which mentioned this object. I didn't know what it meant nor did my parents. So my grandfather bought me a massive unabridged dictionary which offered an unsatisfactory definition to the effect of "a cover for an armchair". If only I had this Wikipedia entry then... I would grok not only the essence of antimacassar, but it's origin and function.
