![]() ![]() ![]() The wind in his face and his whiskers blowing wildly keep Ralph addicted to the need for speed. ![]() The best part of it all is that Keith lets Ralph ride his toy motorcycle that actually gives Ralph the privilege to leave Room 215, go down the hallway, and farther than he has ever been before. Ralph unintentionally befriends Keith, but it turns out to be a gift for him and his entire family. That is until a boy, named Keith, comes to stay in Room 215. While Polly Burroughs of The New York Times deemed the chapter book wrongly nonsensical, other reviewers such as Charlotte Jackson from The Atlantic understood Cleary’s entrance into fantastical writing. Many times he sits on the windowsill staring out at the countryside, wishing to roam freely without the distress of worrying about owls or mousetraps. When The Mouse and the Motorcycle was first published, critics’ reviews were mixed. He is a fearless mouse with a constant hankering for ventures that would take him far from his family's mouse hole in Room 215. Ralph isn't just any mouse living in an old motel. ![]()
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