I liked this book as a kid, but Dane REALLY loved this one. This is a great boys' book. Ralph, a mouse who lives in a hotel, finds a toy motorcycle that a boy brought to the hotel, and learns how to ride it. He and the boy become friends, and he even helps the boy in a big way by the end. Dane was enraptured by the toy motorcycle and imagining Ralph riding around on it, and he got so interested in the story that he was nervous and scared when anything climactic was happening. I thought this was a super fun one and Dane is dying to read the other two books in the series, so we will keep going. It took us a while to get through this one (we started it over Christmas, this was one of Dane's Christmas presents) but we are trying really hard to have Dane do reading practice and read him a bit of a chapter book most days every week.
My main question in this book is one of mechanics. Why does the motorcycle work when Ralph makes the sound with his mouth? Is this supposed to be fantastical and a suspension of disbelief thing? I guess the mouse and the boy are having long conversations with each other, so this shouldn't be that much worse, haha!
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