There are three books in the series: The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Runaway Ralph, and Ralph S. Ralph uses the space under the TV set in the lobby to use as a garage the motorcycle is his to keep. When Ralph is successful, Keith's health is restored. To regain Keith's trust, Ralph searches the hotel for an aspirin tablet, at risk to himself, for the medicine could prove fatal to a small mouse if ingested (in fact, Ralph's father was taken down with a bad cold and died in spite of all they could do). One night Keith becomes very sick because his parents don't have any more aspirin, nor are able to obtain one until morning.
He escapes by chewing holes in the sheets.Īfter Ralph loses the motorcycle Keith loses trust in him, although he still brings the mice colony food. Ralph and the motorcycle are almost sucked up by a maid's vacuum cleaner, but Ralph escapes, riding into a pile of linen and dirty bedsheets. Gridley thinks she is imagining things, but she is still sure that she saw a mouse riding a motorcycle.
One night he is spotted by Keith's mother, and Mrs. While Keith and his family explore California, Ralph recklessly rides the motorcycle through the depths of the hotel. Although Ralph's mother worries that he is in contact with humans, Keith shows Ralph how to start the motorcycle-make an engine-like noise-and lets Ralph ride it during the nighttime. Keith discovers his missing motorcycle in the wastebasket. Startled by a telephone ring, both Ralph and the motorcycle fall into a metal wastebasket. Keith leaves a toy motorcycle on his bedside table, While Keith is away, Ralph attempts to ride it, but cannot figure out how to start it. One day a boy named Keith Gridley and his family visit the hotel on their way through California. Ralph longs for a life of danger and speed, wishing to get away from his relatives, who worry about the mice colony being discovered. Ralph is a mouse who lives in the run-down Mountain View Inn, a battered resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada of California. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
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