The Mouse and the Motorcycle
About this book
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.
Subjects
- abc weekend specials
- adapted for television
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- animals
- bars (drinking establishments)
- chapter books
- children's fiction
- cycling
- fiction
- friendship
- hotels
- hotels, motels
- hotels, motels, etc., fiction
- humor (fiction)
- humorous stories
- juvenile audience
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile literature
- juvenile works
- large type books
- literature and fiction, juvenile
- mice
- mice, fiction
- motels
- motion pictures
- motorcycles
- motorcycles, fiction
- motorcycling
- people & places
- readers
- social themes
- spanish language materials
- transportation
- tv movies