The Mouse and the Motorcycle

By Beverly Cleary

Subjects: Hotels, motels, etc., fiction, Motion Pictures, social themes, Motels, mice, Mice, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Large type books, Adapted for Television, animals, transportation, juvenile audience, Hotels, motels, Literature and fiction, juvenile, TV Movies, Motorcycles, fiction, Fiction, Spanish language materials, ABC Weekend Specials, Children's fiction, hotels, friendship, Motorcycles, readers, Humor (Fiction), People & Places, Juvenile works, chapter books, juvenile literature, juvenile fiction, Bars (Drinking establishments), Cycling, Motorcycling, humorous stories

Description: 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.