Saturday, April 7, 2012

Runaway Ralph

Author: Beverly Cleary
Illustrator: Louis Darling
Type: Juvenile
First Published: 1970
Pages: 175
Week: 7(12)

The book is about a mouse and his motorcycle and the freedom to ride his motorcycle. Ralph, the main character, lives at a hotel Inn where at night he rides his motorcycle, given to him by a young boy, with his crash helmet made from half a ping pong ball. His parents give him grief over riding at night saying its dangerous and make him give the younger mice a ride. Tired of it all, he runs away to a kids camp, a mile away.
The book is about his adventures away and about his struggle to get back to his family.
I had a mixed review on this book. It starts out slow, yet his misadventures are really good. But yet again the book ends weird.
This is a book that if you find it fine and if you don't have it fine.

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