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"Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

A Review by David

Summary -
This is a story is about a mouse named Ralph. He lived with his family under a clock at the Mountain View Inn. Ralph’s little cousins bother him so much that Ralph leaves the Inn and moves in at the school that his owner, Ryan, attends. When Ryan’s class discovers that there is a mouse at school, they decide to have a mouse exhibition. Ralph had fun?until his motorcycle was broken. What will happen next?

SUSPENSE: At night Ralph always rides his motorcycle around the Hotel. Lots of other mice live in the Hotel too. Ralph has a friend named Matt who is the janitor at the Hotel. The owner of the hotel got mad at Matt because of all the mouse droppings on the ground. Will Matt get fired? Rating:

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: The author described and developed the characters very well. For example, Ralph went from a wimpy mouse to a brave mouse. He changed his name from just plain Ralph, to Ralph S. Mouse because he was so smart and he wanted everyone to know. (The S. stands for smart.) Rating:

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Ralph learned that it is important to share. When he just told his cousins to go away and didn’t let them ride his motorcycle, it didn’t help things. Later on in the story he changed his ways and let them ride his motorcycle and they all got along much better. Rating:

IMAGINATION: The author has a great imagination. Ralph and all the other mice can talk and they have human qualities. Also Ralph’s toy motorcycle can be driven around. There is a ‘mouseinator’ – it makes a sound only mice can hear that makes them run away, horrified. Rating:

DIFFICULTY: The plot was a little difficult to follow. Sometimes I got a little confused. Some of the words were long and hard to read. There were not a lot of deep meanings in the story. All in all it wasn’t a particularly difficult book. Rating:

OVERALL RECOMMENDATION: I would recommend this book to other grade five students because it is not too hard to read and is a good, interesting book that teaches an important lesson. Rating:

The Adventure of Ralph S. Mouse By: David Hello, my name is Ralph S. Mouse and I live in a big place called the Mountain View Inn under the big grandfather clock. I’m going to tell you about an adventure that I’ll never forget. Here’s how it started. Well my little cousins lived with me at the Mountain View Inn. They always bug me so much. Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore so I decided to move to Ryan’s school; Irwin J. Sneed Elementary School. The school had lots of fun places to go and I found all of them. When all the children left school I would go rummaging around for things to eat and play with. For instance, in one of the classrooms, the children had made pictures with lots of seed and rice grains and left them on the floor to dry and boy I had a feast. Then after, in the cafeteria, I found a bag of sugar to top it off. But not all was good at school. All during classes, Ryan would keep me in his smelly pocket and then get mad at me for gnawing peep- holes in his pockets. Even though the school was adventurous and fun I decided to move back to the Mountain View Inn.

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