The Rescuers by Margery Sharp Dell Yearling Book

Title: The Rescuers
Publisher: Dell Yearling Book
Author: Margery Sharp
Illustrator: Garth Williams
Year: 1977-78
ISBN#:0-440-47378-0
Edition: 14th
Page Count: 149p
Cover Price: $1.25
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Used, yellowing pages

Book Summary or Synopsis

At a meeting of that venerable organization of mice, the Prisoners' Aid Society, it is decided that the most important item on the autumn program is the rescue of a Norwegian poet from the dungeon of the Black Castle.
The first step, the society agrees, is to find a linguist who knows not only the universal mouse language but Norwegian as well. The fabulous Miss Biance is the obvious choices to secure such a mouse, living as she does at the Embassy and being free to travel in the Diplomatic Bag.

Miss Bianca then secures the services of Nile, a stalwart Norwegian seafaring mouse, and her part of the mission is over. But though her high breeding and luxurious life style have made her somewhat timid, she cannot resist joining Nils and Bernard, the brave andlove-smitten pantry mouse, on their adventure to the Black Castle. There they encounter Mamelouk, the vulgar, fiendish prison cat, who almost brings their rescue efforts to an abrupt halt.