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After the death of O'Brien, his daughter, Jane Leslie Conly, wrote two other novels based on the rats of NIMH. Racso and the Rats of NIMH (1986) tells the story of a city rat who runs away to join the new colony, befriending Timothy, while saving the colony from a flood along the way. In R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH (1990), the rats ...
In 1982, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH became the basis for the animated film The Secret of NIMH, the directorial debut of Don Bluth. In 1998, a sequel to the film called The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue was released. The sequel has no connection to Racso and the Rats of NIMH and was met with poor reception.
The Secret of NIMH is a 1982 American animated fantasy adventure film directed by Don Bluth in his directorial debut and based on Robert C. O'Brien's children's novel, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Racso and the Rats of NIMH is a direct sequel to the Newbery Medal-winning book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Jane Leslie Conly's late father, Robert C. O'Brien.Conly wrote her sequel long after O'Brien's death in 1973, so even though Conly's book attempts to answer many of the open-ended questions posed by the original, it is still Conly's work and not O'Brien's.
Children's literature portal; R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH is a 1990 children's book by Jane Leslie Conly with illustrations by Leonard Lubin. It is a sequel to the 1971 book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, continuing the story from the 1986 book Racso and the Rats of NIMH.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Atheneum, 1971) A Report from Group 17 (Macmillan, 1972) Z for Zachariah (Atheneum, 1974) Film adaptations. The Secret of NIMH (1982) – based on the novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH; The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998) – based on the characters from the novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
While Calhoun was working at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 1954, he began numerous experiments with rats and mice. During his first tests, he placed around 32 to 56 rats in a 10-by-14-foot (3.0 m × 4.3 m) cage in a barn in Montgomery County. He separated the space into four rooms.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1973), by Robert C. O'Brien and published in 1971, was inspired by Calhoun's work. [6] The book later inspired an animated film, The Secret of NIMH. Edmund Ramsden described one of Calhoun's experiments in which rats were placed in a sealed enclosure: