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The Rescuers
by Margery Sharp
The Rescuers by Margery Sharp
Three mice get recruited by Prisoners’ Aid Society, a mouse bureaucracy dedicated to rescuing people, to bust a Norwegen poet out of the dungeon of a tightly locked castle. The movie is based on the second book, apparently.
I love the framework for the book. The vibe has a children’s book parallel to an Alistair MacLean style spy adventure story. But for how fun it gets in some parts, it really drags in others. It meanders quite a bit before the caper kicks in, and it drags when the book stalls out a couple of times in the middle of the action.
On whole, the mice do a lot of waiting around in various settings. Then occasionally fun stuff happens.
You can feel the age of the time in what is considered exciting. The mice find a toy speedboat and drive it. Can you imagine such a thing? No action with the speedboat, just driving.
The gender roles also feel the weight of their time. They aren’t extreme, and the characters are kind to each other, but it just wears on you reading the gender essentialism of what a woman mouse is supposed to be like.
A big missed opportunity in the plot is that you never really find out about the prisoner. Why rescue him and not others? How is he not going to just be put back in jail? There’s no urgency. He’s just a shallow McGuffin.
I don’t regret reading it. The language was at too high of a level for my 1st grader. So if we read the second, it will be when he’s older.
Three mice get recruited by Prisoners’ Aid Society, a mouse bureaucracy dedicated to rescuing people, to bust a Norwegen poet out of the dungeon of a tightly locked castle. The movie is based on the second book, apparently.
I love the framework for the book. The vibe has a children’s book parallel to an Alistair MacLean style spy adventure story. But for how fun it gets in some parts, it really drags in others. It meanders quite a bit before the caper kicks in, and it drags when the book stalls out a couple of times in the middle of the action.
On whole, the mice do a lot of waiting around in various settings. Then occasionally fun stuff happens.
You can feel the age of the time in what is considered exciting. The mice find a toy speedboat and drive it. Can you imagine such a thing? No action with the speedboat, just driving.
The gender roles also feel the weight of their time. They aren’t extreme, and the characters are kind to each other, but it just wears on you reading the gender essentialism of what a woman mouse is supposed to be like.
A big missed opportunity in the plot is that you never really find out about the prisoner. Why rescue him and not others? How is he not going to just be put back in jail? There’s no urgency. He’s just a shallow McGuffin.
I don’t regret reading it. The language was at too high of a level for my 1st grader. So if we read the second, it will be when he’s older.