Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is
Newberry award winning book by
Robert C. O'Brien. It is about the
adventures of a
field mouse, named
Mrs. Frisby, her family (esp. her ill son Timothy), and a colony of escaped
lab rats made
intelligent by an
experiment at the
National Institute of Mental Health (
NIMH).
It's also one of seoman's favorite books. Go to your local library and check it out.
A movie entitled The Secret of NIMH has been based on this book.