Seize The Mouse And The Motorcycle Narrated By Beverly Cleary Distributed As Interactive EBook

a child Beverly Cleary was my favorite author, For some reason I just really loved this one, My mother collected mouse figurines when I was a child, so in a way, I just thought I was so cool being able to share this story with my mom about a mouse who was so intrigued by a toy motorcycle.
I bet I read this book a dozen times, I even convinced my mom to let me have a pet mouse in which I named Ralph, Secretly I wished he would ride a motorcycle, . . but deep down I knew that wasn't going to happen, but a child can dream right Original review June,:

I really miss the days when I used to regularly read to my children.
They are all grown now the youngest is, But Beverly Cleary was one of my kids' favorite authors, and mine too, So, being in a nostalgic mood one day I decided to pick up and read one of her books that I had not yet read.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle just never really appealed that much to me or to my kids because we tend to like stories about real, or at least realistic, people, not so much animals that can talk and ride motorcycles, etc.
But, it was worth a shot, and it wasn't too bad, but definitely not one of Cleary's best,



Update December,:

My second reading of this book this time in Spanish as part of my daily practice of my second language.
Such a cute little story, My son loved having me read it to him, No telling how many time I read this book when I was a kid, One of the top ten of my childhood! If I were a mouse I'd be like Ralph, This, the underrated, overlooked and oft forgotten prequel to Runaway Ralph and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, tells the tail yes I did! of one Ralph S.
Mouse, a grease monkey of an entirely different genus Mus, Praised in France for its controversial use of alcoholism in mice and freespirited sexuality, the book received numerous awards including the prestigious Caldecott Medal.
It was later the basis for the film Motorcycle Diaries, for which it was rumored method actor Gael Garcia Bernal spent months preparing for his role as Ralph only to have the role changed to a more believable, though less interesting, sitelinkChe Guevara.
In recent years, the books exclusion from the New York Times',Greatest Books from theth Century has spawned a grass roots support group called "In the Hearts of Mice.
" This is a good book for kids and parents too, It engages kids imagination. My son liked the motorcycle and the adventure, We read this book together althought mostly he read it to me and it had good vocabulary and a pretty good pace.
He is a first grader but reads at third grade level and it was a good level for him, We are both ready to read the second one, He hopes the second one is similar to this one, I thought that it was nice of Keith to let Ralph have his motorcycle because it was his favorite toy.


I loved the helmet Keith made for Ralph out of a ping pong ball, Ralph loved his crash helmet,

This book reminds me of sitelinkStuart Little,


This was the first book I ever owned, This book is why I write, I remember reading this as a child as well as every other Beverly Cleary book I could find, I couldn't tell you the details of the story but I have many fond memories of these books, I first read 'The Mouse and the Motorcycle' as a young child, It is one of the books that stands out in my memory, It sparked a love of reading that has stayed with me for a lifetime,

The local library, where my grandmother would take me for story time when I was a little girl, had very high ceilings with crown molding all the way around the top.
Only, this library left about a one foot gap between the ceiling and the top of the molding, resulting in a small ledge/shelf, high up on the wall and all the way around the room.
On that "ledge" they had managed to get a "Ralph" riding a motorcycle around the room, I'm sure it was some sort of simple pulley system, but it did the trick, I think I believed in Ralph longer than I believed in Santa, Nobody was going to tell me that he wasn't real after seeing him ride around at the library!

Listening to the audiobook for the first time with my daughters, I was happy to see that they seemed to enjoy all of Ralph and Keith's adventures as well.
It held their attention from start to finish, which is invaluable when you're trapped in a car with children, This was another one of our road trip selections as we made the,hour drive from my home to my grandmother's and back, The timing was just right to finish it on the way there, listening to another story on the return trip.


This book tells the story of a young boy that is staying at a hotel with his parents.
Living in the older hotel is a family of mice, Ralph is the young "boy" mouse, struggling to stay out of trouble as he yearns for adventure,

Keith and Ralph become fast friends when Keith rescues Ralph from the wastebasket, For the rest of Keith's stay, they grow closer, forcing each other to view life through a different lens, It is a story about kindness, responsibility, trustworthiness and tolerance, Ralph and Keith learn some tough lessons about friendship along the way,

Overall, this remains a fantastic children's story, My girls really enjoyed listening to the adventures of Ralph play out as we listened, The narration was good and the length was just right, I definitely recommend this book for young, school age children,
I vaguely remember reading this as a preteen, I can't wait to read it again with our girls!

Julyupdate: We finally got around to this one.
I borrowed an audio CD of this book, with sitelinkWilliam Roberts as the narrator,

Unfortunately, the story seemed a bit old fashioned and dragged in places our youngest complained that she was bored with the book about halfway through so did my husband, but we listened on and she seemed to be more engaged in the story toward the end.


The CD was a bit garbled in places, so I read the last few pages from the paperback book with ISBNthat I'd brought along just for that purpose.


Overall, I thought it was a charming tale and it was good timing that we read it now, since it takes place right before the Fourth of July.
The characters are entertaining and we loved the different personalities of the mice, I think I'd like to read the next two books in the series with our girls, too, A childhood book that I just love to no end I normally dont give a warning on my reviews unless its particularly hard R or NCtype of discussion however since this is a kids book I will warn that there is some strong language and slightly inappropriate humor in this review that is not suitable for kids.
Basically dont complain if your kid learns swear words or asks what a joke I made meant I mean this site is for agesfor fucks sake.

Youve been warned.

Sometimes reading a book for no reason other than the title catching your attention can be a great experience.
. . this was not one of those times,

Whats it about
This family is staying in a hotel that seems kinda iffy and the mother thinks theres mice.
People around her are like “no” but surely enough, yes, One particularly brave mouse sees the kids toy motorcycle, learns to ride it and forms a friendship, Eventually things get fucked up, the mouse family is worried and blah blah blah,

Why it getsstar:
The story, . . ya know the story could have maybe worked as something kinda cute and fun for the kind of little kid book this is meant to be if the plot devices werent COMPLETELY FUCKING STUPID.
So in order to make the motorcycle run the mouse makes the engine noise with his mouth and it actually works like an actual tiny motorcycle.
. . what Or “mice and people can

understand each other if they both like motorcycles”, . . ya know a lot of kids movies have talking animals without ridiculous explanations like that one,
The characters. I didnt care about any of them, In fact I found most of them rather annoying,
Maybe I misunderstood what the intent of this book is but nothing here was humorous, . . hell Im not even sure where any joke was meant to be, I mean, surely a book called The Mouse and The Motorcycle isnt meant to be taken seriously, right
I was very bored by this one.

This story is extremely predictable,
The dialogue is pretty bad,
The narrator of the audio edition I listened to is terrible, His voices for everyone make them sound like terrible sitcom characters, Of course the obnoxious, terrible music that plays multiple times in the audiobook doesnt help at all,
The ending is stupid,

Overall:
I didnt like this one, Maybe Im being a bit harsh to a childrens book but many books intended for a younger audience are entertaining, this one just kinda sucked.
Seriously the best thing in this book was the interaction between the mouse and the young, giant in comparison maid.
. . and seriously if you want giant maid content you most likely know where to find it!

Figured Id still give yall one! Hell, this one pic was better than the whole book
This book really just has a terrible mix of awful story, annoying characters, boring pace, lack of humor and if you listen to the audiobook a bad narrator to make it worse.

Not recommended at all,

/"The Mouse and the Motorcycle" is a book about a mouse named Ralph who lives in a hotel.
One day a family come into the apartment where Ralph lives, One boy has some toy cars and one is a motorcycle, When the family is gone Ralph decides to take the motorcycle for a ride, Ralph ends up falling into a wastebasket, When the family comes back the child finds Ralph, The two are able to talk to each other, and they become friends, Later in the book Ralph loses the motorcylce and the child becomes ill, You have to read the book to see what happens next, I recommend this book for young adults who like adventure and fiction, .