Zach

I read The Mouse and The Motorcycle and that title made me think those two things don’t go well together, so I wondered what it could possibly be about. This book was by Beverly Cleary who used to be a bad reader until third grade when she caught up with everyone else. So what I don’t get is why she chose to be an author if she wasn’t such a good reader until third grade. This book is part of a series called Ralph and the Motorcycle. There is a mouse named Ralph and a boy named Keith in the story. The Mouse and The Motorcycle took place in a rundown hotel in California, but it does not say what the time period is but it is probably modern times.

This story was about a little mouse named Ralph who lived in a knothole in one of the rooms of the hotel. Ralph is a very big risk taker because once Ralph went out on a dangerous mission to help Keith that involved the lower floor. He’s also very adventurous because when he grows up he wants to explore the whole hotel. Ralph never worries because he wants to go down on a lower floor even though he knows it’s dangerous. Then a boy named Keith stayed at the hotel with his parents and brought along a little toy motorcycle. Ralph noticed it and tried to ride it but ended riding it into the trashcan. Keith noticed them both in the trashcan and took them both out. Keith said hello to the mouse and Ralph said hello right back, which for some reason did not surprise Keith even though mice usually can’t talk. Ralph said that his motorcycle did not work but Keith showed him it did and he let Ralph ride it, which started a good friendship. In the story Ralph does learn that being greedy can sometimes wind you up in a laundry basket and end up almost losing a friend. One time Ralph had to help Keith get an aspirin since he was sick so Ralph went down to the bottom floor to find one. He went into a room with some college kids sleeping and found one and used an ambulance that Keith had as a toy, Ralph got it in the ambulance and drove it back up. Ralph decided to be greedy. He was greedy because he wanted the motorcycle all to himself. His greediness almost ended

up with him losing the motorcycle and a friendship which almost changed the book completely.

I liked this book because I was wondering how they could of possibly put a mouse and a motorcycle together but they put it together so that it made perfect sense to me. One other thing that I liked was that Keith and Ralph became really good friends. I recommend this book if you like adventures and fiction. A connection I have is that me and Ralph both like adventures.

I rate this book four stars.