Another reason rat populations number in the billions is that they reproduce at a furious rate. During her six-hour estrus, when she is fertile, a female brown rat will mate up to 500 times with a number of different male partners. Absolutely no disappointment here! For those who don't know the story, Mrs. Frisby is a field mouse with four children. Her son Timothy gets pneumonia and cannot be moved from their winter home. The problem is that the farmer is about to plow the fields. If Mrs. Frisby doesn't find a solution about what to do for Timothy then he will die. Mrs. Frisby obtains medicine from her friend Mr. Ages, an older white mouse. On the return journey, she saves the life of Jeremy, a young crow, from Dragon, the farmer's cat– the same cat who killed her husband, Jonathan.

General Ishii also practiced vivisection on live humans. He was never tried for war crimes, apparently having made a deal with the Americans who got copies of his notes and papers which formed the basis for the early American attempts at creating biological weapons. He retired a respected medical man.Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. In fifth grade, this was available through RIF and I remember seeing the copy on the folding table among all the many other free books. I snatched it up so fast, grabbing up from under my taller classmates, swiping like Swiper has never swiped. It was the movie edition which means it was the same story but with pictures from the Don Bluth film adaptation in middle. I adored that movie ("A sparkly!"), my family and I had seen it at the Drive-In and have been quoting it ever since. If you are looking for a specific brand of children’s book that is simultaneously wholesome, while containing legitimate sci-fi horror elements, then look no further than Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

Just a few days ago, we were able to uncover the first major casting news of The Witcher Season 4: Sharlto Copely ( District 9, Elysium) will portray the violent mercenary Bonhart in the Rats spinoff and in Season 4. I saw “ The Secret Of Nimh” at a birthday sleepover party. If it was in grade 6, I was 11 years-old; sensitive enough to have compassion for sad elements and still a baby to be spooked by dark moments. It is this August that I finally read Robert C. O’Brien’s original book 38 years later. I afterwards watched my videotape with my spouse. We were touched but not blown away. It changed in fundamental ways from the storybook, which is unforgettable. We happen to be in the birthday party week-end of my 49th year, this November 2021! The latter is the subject of Robert Sullivan’s eye opening book about the pest everyone loves to hate. Lots of gory action from flesh getting ripped apart and thousands of humans getting eat. Yeah, don’t go into this book if you don’t like some gore and more. If you like your horror with scary creatures, this might be a fun book for you to read. The second class was a modern history class where the professor announced, "Modern history is anything that has happened while I have been alive." He also said, "History is written by the winners, and it mostly ignores the losers."

It like a 1970’s 'Exploitation Movie'. It luxuriates in all its excessive drinking, smoking, overly abundant sex, and strange depictions of silly-brained 1970's women.