Scaredy is inevitably faced with the fears he tries so hard to avoid, eventually learning that it is not as bad as he initially imagined. However, he only slightly alters his strict daily routines after these experiences. Adapted into a TV series.
The two mice are the protagonists, along with Sampson the cat, in the series, which take place in and around a church in the fictional town of Whortlethope, England.
A castle-mouse and the only living mouse of his mother's last litter. Named for the despairs and sadnesses of that time, Despereaux is an oddball among the mouse community from birth, as he is born with a small body, huge ears, and open eyes.
A nervous, mild-mannered mouse who would like nothing better than to live a quiet life, but he keeps getting involved in far-away adventures with his relatives.
Johnny lives in town which proves to be too scary and too much for Timmy, while Timmy lives in the country which is too quiet and full of sudden surprises for Johnny.
Martin, a young mouse, is the son of a warrior. In Martin the Warrior, Martin manages to escape from slavery at the hands of Badrang the Tyrant, and then returns to take back his father's stolen sword and put an end to Badrang forever. Martin's further adventures are chronicled in the other two books.
A grey mouse, who has many domestic adventures, often with his beloved cat-tiger toy. He was created in 1982. The book series were then adapted into a German TV Series in 1987 titled "Philipp die Maus" plus an up-to-date magazine series.
They live in tunnels between the tailor's workshop and house. After he rescues them from Simkins, they repay him by finishing a wedding coat while he is ill in bed.
A rodent version of Death, who came into being when Death disappears during Reaper Man. Instead of a human skeleton, Death of Rats possesses a rodent skeleton.
A domestic rat whom Sara Crewe befriends during her time as a servant at Miss Minchin's Seminary; she calls him "a Bastille rat sent to be my friend".[2][3]
A circus rat, originally named Wentworth Winterbottom, who becomes a Pie Rat and a member of Captain Black Rat's crew aboard the Apple Pie and is renamed Whisker.
An unnamed porcupine represents the tough outside and kind heart of the narrator, Jacqueline, who faces difficult times when her father dies and her mother abandons her and her two younger siblings. In the final scene, she meets and feeds the wild porcupine.[7]
^Paterson, Katherine (February 2000). "The Child in the Attic". National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance / Ohio State University Children's Literature Festival. Archived from the original on March 13, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2014. She gives the rat the name Melchisedec. Perhaps this is Mrs. Burnett's joke, as Melchisedec was a kingly high priest in the book of Genesis to whom, we are told, the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of all he possessed. Sara shares her crumbs with the rat, which is a large percentage of what she possesses.
^Gruner, Elizabeth Rose (1998). "Cinderella, Marie Antoinette, and Sara: Roles and Role Models in A Little Princess". The Lion and the Unicorn. 22 (2). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press: 163–187. Retrieved November 21, 2014. Her status as orphan is of course central to the novel's plot; it is also subtly underscored in her naming of the rat Melchisedec, whose Biblical namesake is famously "without father, without mother, without descent" (Hebrews 7:3).
^Barrett, Terry L. (2008). "Aesthetic Landscapes of the Golden Mouse". In Gary W. Barrett and George A. Feldhamer (ed.). The Golden Mouse: Ecology and Conservation. New York: Springer. p. 198. ISBN978-0-387-33665-7. A Harper Trophy, revised edition of the 1995 publication of Poppy ... included ... Ragweed, a golden mouse (O. nuttalli) having dialogue with Poppy, a deer mouse (Peromyscus manipulatus)...