As I said in my anticipating post, I had read this book before but it had been a really long time and I did not remember too much. Although I was proud of myself for remembering "an intense scene in the kitchen"! Overall I really liked this story. One thing that I noticed this time that I do not remember effecting me when I was younger was the story of what happened at NIMH. Reading it now, it seemed to me that the lab experiments seemed like a very mature topic for a children's novel. Not that it was hard to understand but the subject matter seemed like a more advanced one. Something that I wondered while reading this book was is it possible to teach rats to be able to read at the level that the rats of NIMH learned? The story seemed to be making a subtle hit at the problems with knowledge and how it can be abused. It really put a negative light on science and experimenting.
In compared to the other mice/rats book we read, I definitely enjoyed this one more. It was much easier to read. I looked up both books on the AR website and discovered while they are about the same book level, Redwall is twice as many points as Mrs. Frisby. This makes sense because Redwall is much longer and dense than Mrs. Frisby. I think that this story flowed much better and was easier to follow.
I feel like I have asked more questions than answers in this post...
So to sum up in a way: Mrs. Frisby > Redwall; Technology gets a negative light; I seem to remember a lot more from my childhood reading than I realized :)
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