![]() ![]() Īfter O’Brien’s death in 1973, his daughter Jane Leslie Conly wrote two sequels to Mrs. Calhoun on mouse and rat population dynamics at the National Institute of Mental Health from the 1940s to the 1960s. The rats of NIMH were inspired by the research of John B. Frisby, a widowed field mouse who seeks to protect her children and home from destruction by a farmer’s plow. The novel centers around a colony of escaped lab rats–the rats of NIMH–who live in a technologically sophisticated and literate society mimicking that of humans. Ten years following its publication, the story was adapted for film as The Secret of NIMH (1982). This book was the winner of numerous awards including the 1972 Newbery Medal. The novel was published by the New York City publishing house Atheneum Books. O'Brien, with illustrations by Zena Bernstein. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a 1971 children's science fiction/fantasy book by Robert C. First edition cover with Bernstein artwork.Ġ-2 (second Aladdin paperback edition, 1999) ![]()
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