{"key": "/works/OL151956W", "title": "Runaway Ralph", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL22132A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "first_publish_date": "January 23, 2007", "cover_edition": {"key": "/books/OL9244356M"}, "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Runaway Ralph is the second in a children's novel trilogy written by Beverly Cleary. First published in 1970, it is the last book by Cleary that Louis Darling illustrated before his death. The book features the titular character, Ralph S. Mouse, a house mouse that can talk to humans, and goes on adventures on his miniature motorcycle.\r\n\r\nThe book was given the Nene Award by the Hawaii Library Association in 1972."}, "links": [{"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_Ralph", "title": "Runaway Ralph - Wikipedia", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "http://www.beverlycleary.com/characters.aspx#Ralph", "title": "beverlycleary.com/characters.aspx#Ralph", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "dewey_number": ["[Fic]"], "covers": [15033545, 8445074], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The small brown mouse named Ralph who was hiding under the grandfather clock did not have much longer to wait before he could ride his motorcycle."}, "subject_places": ["Mountain View Inn", "Happy Acres Camp"], "subject_people": ["Ralph S. Mouse", "Garfield", "Catso", "Sam", "Chum"], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "The small brown mouse named Ralph who was hiding under the grandfather clock did not have much longer to wait before he could ride his motorcycle.", "author": {"key": "/people/seabelis"}, "comment": "first sentence"}], "subjects": ["watchdogs", "motorcycling", "camping", "running away", "summer camp", "summer", "Juvenile fiction", "Mice", "Fiction", "Mice -- Fiction", "camps", "Humorous Stories", "Action & Adventure", "animals", "Juvenile works", "Children's fiction", "Mice, fiction", "Boys, fiction", "Readers", "Chapter Books", "Classics", "social themes", "runaways", "Souris", "Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse", "Runaways, fiction", "Fiction, general", "Protected DAISY", "In library"], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-19T23:22:20.267455"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-05-20T10:59:54.232666"}}