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Paperback The Rescuers Book

ISBN: 0316783552

ISBN13: 9780316783552

The Rescuers

(Book #1 in the The Rescuers Series)

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MISS BIANCA IS A WHITE MOUSE OF GREAT BEAUTY and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador s son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose, the mouse to dispatch on an especially challenging and extraordinarily perilous mission. However, it is precisely Miss Bianca that the Prisoners Aid Society picks for the job of rescuing a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the legendarily dreadful Black Castle (we all know, don t we, that mice are the friends of prisoners, tending to their needs in dungeons and oubliettes everywhere). Miss Bianca, after all, is a poet too, and in any case she is due to travel any day now by diplomatic pouch to Norway. There Miss Bianca will be able to enlist one Nils, known to be the bravest mouse in the land, in a desperate and daring endeavor that will take them, along with their trusty companion Bernard, across turbulent seas and over the paws and under the maws of cats into one of the darkest places known to man or mouse. It will take everything they ve got and a good deal more to escape with their own lives, not to mention the poet. Margery Sharp s classic tale of pluck, luck, and derring-do is amply and beautifully illustrated by the great Garth Williams." This description may be from another edition of this product.

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8 customer ratings | 6 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Phenomenal book!

I have to say, I was never expecting the book that inspired the disney movie to be so good! The characters are extremely lovable, their dialogue was enjoyable and the way it moved so casually through the story, it really did feel like it was more about the journey than the quest. This book reminded me how fun reading can be!

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Rated 5 stars
Old fashioned vocabulary but timeless adventure - great fun

My 7 year old insisted we buy this from the 2nd hand shop and she diligently worked her way through all 149 pages. I was struck by how rich, varied and advanced the vocabulary was -- modern children's books pale in comparison. My daughter quickly got over her annoyance at the "hard" words and decided it was fun to be able to express yourself using more colourful and expressive phrasing than is generally common. After reading...

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Rated 5 stars
a SUPER FANTASTIC read!!!!!

This book was really really good! Even though I don't like fantasy books that much, I thought that this book was upbeat and extraordinarily written. My mom couldn't get me to go to sleep becuase I kept wanting to read more and more! I think that it was zero cool and that everybody should read it if they get the chance!

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Rated 5 stars
As good as I remembered!

Not many things in life can live up to the fond image your memory creates after many years of absence. Margery Sharp's Miss Bianca series can, I'm happy to learn. I recently bought the first three books of the series (The Rescuers, Miss Bianca, The Turret) to read with my kids. I'd read them when I was a kid and remembered -- more than remembered, I could even *feel* -- the carried-away-by-my-imagination thrill that I got...

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Rated 5 stars
It's criminal that these are out of print

The nine Miss Bianca books ARE old-fashioned in their views, yes, and not a THING like the Disney movie (thank goodness). You can say the same thing about a number of fairy and folk tales and that does not diminish their capacity to charm and delight. These books are filled with adventures where kindness and good hearts triumph over evil, but not in a sappy, maudlin way. What a terrible shame that these are out of print...

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