Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH/The Secret of NIMH

Never saw the movie, but yes, the book I read and re-read as a child. The thing with the rock in the middle of the field and the lee side in the shadow jumps unbidden into my mind even today, not having read it for oooh, 25 years?

Seen the film, haven't read the book. The film is wonderful.

HMMM.

http://deadline.com/2015/03/mrs-frisby-the-rats-of-nimh-ice-age-5-michael-berg-mgm-1201385967/

Ugh. Funk dat.

anyone who loved "mrs frisby" should read o'brien's first book, "the silver crown." one of the weirdest and most haunting books i ever read as a kid, sort of a more realistic madeleine l'engle-ish quest story with odd conspiratorial overtones. even scarier and more violent than either version of nimh, but an equally strong and memorable protagonist.

unfortunately all the recent editions have embarrassingly terrible covers; i ended up shelling out for a first edition on ebay a few years back just so i could read it again.

I was initially thinking that this in no way needed to be remade but then I started thinking that there weren't nearly enough songs in the original and that it was way too dark and that it would be much improved by the addition of poop jokes and Poochie-fied comic relief characters that make Dom DeLuise seem like the height of restraint and refinement and then I made an appointment with my neurologist for early next week.

its not just an issue that the movie changes it from sci fi to fantasy, but it does so in the service of a bizarre deus ex machina