The Mouse and the motorcycle - wikipedia The Mouse and the motorcycle This article 's lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the article 's talk page. ( March 2015 ) The Mouse and the Motorcycle First edition Author Beverly Cleary Illustrator Louis Darling Country United States Language English Series The Mouse and the Motorcycle Publisher William Morrow Publication date 1965 Media type Print ( Hardcover and Paperback ) Pages 186 OCLC 22460783 Followed by Runaway Ralph The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children 's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965. Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Series 3 Printings 4 Film adaptation 5 References Plot summary Ralph is a mouse who lives in the run - down Mountain View Inn, a battered resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. Ralph longs for a life of danger and speed, wishing to get away from his relatives, who worry about the mice colony being discovered. One day a boy named Keith Gridley and his family visit the hotel on their way through California. Keith leaves a toy motorcycle on his bedside table. While Keith is away, Ralph attempts to ride it, but can not figure out how to start it. Startled by a telephone ring, both Ralph and the motorcycle fall into a metal wastebasket. Keith discovers his missing motorcycle in the wastebasket. Although Ralph 's mother worries that he is in contact with humans, Keith shows Ralph how to start the motorcycle -- make an engine - like noise -- and lets Ralph ride it at night. While Keith and his family explore California, Ralph recklessly rides the motorcycle through the depths of the hotel. One night he is spotted by Keith 's mother, who initially thinks she is imagining things, but later is sure that she saw a mouse riding a motorcycle. Ralph and the motorcycle are almost sucked up by a maid 's vacuum cleaner, but Ralph escapes, riding into a pile of linen and dirty bedsheets. He escapes by chewing holes in the sheets, forced to leave the precious vehicle behind. After Ralph loses the motorcycle, Keith loses trust in him. He still brings the mice colony food. One night Keith becomes very sick, because his parents do n't have any more aspirin and are unable to obtain one until morning. To regain Keith 's trust, Ralph searches the hotel for an aspirin tablet, at risk to himself, for the medicine could prove fatal to a small mouse if ingested ( in fact, Ralph 's father was taken down with a bad cold and died in spite of all they could do ). Ralph is able to find an aspirin tablet and borrows Keith 's toy ambulance to retrieve it. When Ralph is successful, Keith 's health is restored. In gratitude, Keith gives Ralph the motorcycle to keep -- one of the hotel 's housekeepers had found it among the linens from which Ralph escaped. Ralph uses the space under the TV set in the lobby as a garage ; the motorcycle is his to keep. Series The Mouse and the Motorcycle ( 1967 ) Runaway Ralph ( 1970 ) Ralph S. Mouse ( 1982 ) Printings The book was released as a selection of the Weekly Reader Children 's Book Club - Intermediate Division. Film adaptation Churchill Films produced an adaptation of The Mouse and the Motorcycle directed by Ron Underwood in 1986, featuring Mimi Kennedy and Ray Walston. The film was distributed by Strand Home Video and Golden Book Video under the `` GoldenVision '' label. References Jump up ^ The Mouse and the Motorcycle : HarperTrophy Books. Retrieved 5 March 2012. Jump up ^ `` '' ABC Weekend Specials '' : The Mouse and the Motorcycle ``. Retrieved 5 March 2012. Awards Preceded by The Grizzly Winner of the William Allen White Children 's Book Award 1968 Succeeded by Henry Reed 's Baby - Sitting Service hide Works by Beverly Cleary Henry Huggins Henry Huggins Henry and Beezus Henry and Ribsy Henry and the Paper Route Henry and the Clubhouse Ribsy Ramona Quimby Beezus and Ramona Ramona the Pest Ramona the Brave Ramona and Her Father Ramona and Her Mother Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Ramona Forever Ramona 's World Ralph S. Mouse The Mouse and the Motorcycle Runaway Ralph Ralph S. Mouse First Love Fifteen The Luckiest Girl Jean and Johnny Sister of the Bride Ellen & Otis Ellen Tebbits Otis Spofford Leigh Botts Dear Mr. Henshaw Strider Leave It to Beaver Leave It to Beaver Here 's Beaver ! Beaver and Wally Picture books The Hullabaloo ABC The Real Hole Two Dog Biscuits The Growing - Up Feet Lucky Chuck Janet 's Thingamajigs Petey 's Bedtime Story Other fiction Emily 's Runaway Imagination Mitch and Amy Socks Muggie Maggie Related media Ramona Ramona and Beezus Autobiographies A Girl From Yamhill My Own Two Feet Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Mouse_and_the_Motorcycle&oldid=836124268 '' Categories : 1986 films 1965 American novels ABC Weekend Special Fictional mice and rats Novels by Beverly Cleary Novels set in hotels Novels set in California Children 's novels about animals Motorcycling in fiction American novels adapted into films 1965 children 's books Hidden categories : Wikipedia introduction cleanup from March 2015 All pages needing cleanup Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from March 2015 All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify Pages to import images to Wikidata Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 12 April 2018, at 20 : 18. 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Question: when was the mouse and the motorcycle published
Answer: 1965