The Mouse and the Motorcycle
by Beverly Cleary · first published 1965
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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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As a child I read "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" countless times over. A forgotten part of my childhood right there.
on “Beverly Cleary has died” ↗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.
on “Beverly Cleary has died” ↗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…
on “Beverly Cleary has died” ↗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…
on “Beverly Cleary has died” ↗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…
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