{"id":434,"date":"2012-02-27T20:46:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T01:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2021-08-14T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T14:07:00","slug":"nice-mice-and-awesome-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/nice-mice-and-awesome-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Mice and Awesome Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beatrix Potter wrote about mice. A mouse \u2013 well, a Dormouse \u2013 is an unconscious guest at the Mad Hatter\u2019s tea party in Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>; and Reepicheep, a touchy but gallant mouse, is a favorite in C.S. Lewis\u2019s Prince Caspian<\/em> and Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In Kenneth Grahame\u2019s ever-enchanting The Wind in the Willows<\/em>, a main character is Ratty, a Water Rat \u2013 well, a vole \u2013 who loves the River and insists that there\u2019s nothing \u2013 nothing \u2013 better than messing about in boats.<\/p>\n

In Roald Dahl\u2019s The Witches<\/em>, the narrator is captured by witches, fed a potion called \u201cFormula 86 Delayed-Action Mouse Maker,\u201d and turned \u2013 permanently in the book, non-permanently in the movie \u2013 into a mouse.<\/p>\n

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