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