The Mouse and the Motorcycle
by Beverly Cleary
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Book Reviews of The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Book Review: Mouse on the motorcyle
Summary: 4 Stars
MOUSE ON THE MOTORCYLEThe mouse on the motorcycle by Beverly Cleary was one of my favorite books I have read so far in my life believe it or not. Not because it's an easy reading level or anything like that, but I am also not that good a of reader at all. But I think at some points in the book it was so funny I all most couldn't even breathe. The mouse and the motorcycle is about a mouse with a little toy motorcycle that rides with his tail up because it will get caught in the spokes of the little motorcycle. He rides around a hotel and has to escape all kinds of things like mousetraps, maids, and things of that nature. What I like about the book is the mouse. The mouse is the best part about the book because he so quick and fast and Knows know one can caught him. He also pretty cool. But he all a very dangerous mouse he's crazy in every way trying to get away from the vacuum cleaner and risking he life but he never gets caught because so quick and fast I guess he knows he's not going to get caught.
I would recommend this book to a young child who likes books about motorcycles and mouse. Because its very easy to read and understand and funny in some parts of the book to. The cover of the book with catch their eye too. Even through your not suppose too judge a book by its cover but there young. I also think the fact of a mouse riding on a toy motorcycle with interest them in something. Because every little kid like to play with toy motorcycles.
Book Review: Amanda Pittard's review: The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is about a boy named Keith and a curious mouse named, Ralph. Keith and his family are on vacation and are staying at a hotel, which just happens to be Ralph's home. Ralph is a very curious mouse and when Keith is out of the room Ralph sees a shiny motorcylce. Keith left his toy motorcycle on the table and Ralph decides that he wants to ride it. Ralph ends up falling into a trashcan with the motorcycle. Ralph thought he was a gonner, until Keith comes along and saves him. The boy and the mouse end up developing a great friendship. Keith helps to protect Ralph and his mouse family from the humans who do not want the mice around. Ralph ends up helping Keith out when he is very sick. They end up realizing how important it is having a good friend. The boy and mouse experience many adventures while Keith stays at the hotel. I found this book so exciting that I did not want to put it down. I got sucked into the book and felt like I was experiencing the adventures myself. I learned from this book, that having friends and people who love and care about you are a very important thing to have in life. I was also able to see how Ralph and Keith both matured from their experiences that they shared. If you like adventure and fantasy worlds, this book is a great book to read to get out of the real world for a while. Amanda PittardBook Review: Plot! Character! Action!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a rare treasure, perfectly pitched to read aloud to my five-year-old boys.
First, it's a lovely tale, perfectly combining gentle, humourous real world observation (hotels, vacuum cleaners) with just enough fantasy elements to keep childish imagination tantalised (a talking mouse! who rides a motorbike!).
Most appealing of all are Cleary's full, three-dimensional characters - just as I remember from my own earth-shattering discovery of Ramona decades ago. You can't help but relate to a mouse who experiences envy, shame, and guilt - and thereby reflects a real-world humanity that is either entirely absent. or treated ham-fistedly in so many other books for this age. More than adding to our enjoyment of the story, I loved the fact that this quality introduces my children to what literature can be - not merely a diversion, but a call to reflection, showing you the ordinariness of your foibles, and the possibilites for redemption.
Then of course (of greater interest to them than to me) was the action. The machine-centric obsession, the necessity of speed and bravery, the near misses - all the heroic theatrics close to most young boys' hearts.
I wish I'd bought the whole trilogy at once. We will return to this book many times.
Book Review: Fun Book About Unlikely Friends
Summary: 4 Stars
When Keith and his family take room 215 at an old hotel, he never imagines what is in store for him. See, that room also happens to be the home of Ralph, a young mouse. When Keith leaves his toy motorcycle out and then leaves for dinner, Ralph can't resist sitting on it. Keith discovers him and the two become friends. But what adventures will await Ralph now that he can ride a motorcycle?
I missed these books as a kid. There is a decided fantasy element to them that is missing from Beverly Cleary's other books. But that doesn't make them bad at all. In fact, just the little bits that were there added a lot of charm to the story.
The story started a little slowly, but once Ralph takes his first ride on the motorcycle, things really pick up. In fact, I was often left wondering how he would get out of whatever his next problem would be. Mrs. Cleary does a wonderful job of bring a mouse's world to life and creating problems that would be realistic. Ralph really grows over the course of the book, and that growth is fun to watch, at least for this adult.
I know I have missed other books about Ralph, and I just might have to track them down. I'm interested in seeing what else happens to this adventuresome mouse.
Book Review: Join Ralph for the ride of his life!
Summary: 5 Stars
Beverly Cleary's books have entertained kids for nearly 50 years, and this wonderful introduction to Ralph S. Mouse is no exception. Ralph is a young mouse living between the walls of the Mountain View Inn. He and his family always depend on the crumps of food that are dropped by the vacationers who stay at the Inn. It is critical that they remain hidden from human eyes lest the hotel sprays the Inn. One summer day, Ralph hears a boy making the sounds that all young children make when playing with toy motorcycles, so Ralph stealthily investigates the cycle when it's owner, Keith, is out of the room. When Keith discovers Ralph on the motorcycle, he makes a new friend by showing Ralph how to get the contraption to "go." "Pb-pb-b-b-b," goes Ralph, and away he goes on the "motorized" motorcycle, finding the freedom he has always yearned for in his young life. Now Ralph has endless opportunities for adventure, sometimes fun, sometimes scary, but always exciting. This is a special book. Kids adore it, and adults frequently love this journey back into childhood fantasy. I know I do!