Bill Littlefield, late the host of NPR’s weekly sports magazine program “Only A Game,” wrote Who Taught That Mouse To Write? in part to enjoy it with his grandchildren. Light-hearted, surprising, sometimes profound and encouraging, the verses and illustrator Stephen Coren’s engaging drawings will delight readers of all ages on all sorts of levels.
How many books can children, their parents, and their grandparents read aloud together with delight and laughter?
As of now, one more than you thought!
The humorous, sometimes provocative, often goofy rhymes about smug, giggling termites, a jailed aardvark, a confused octopus, and a choir of cows among other extraordinarily entertaining animals make Who Taught That Mouse To Write? such a book. Rhyme-smith Littlefield’s doggerel verses are wonderfully complimented by the drawings of illustrator Coren. NPR’s Robin Young was moved to say Coren’s presentation of the singing cows was “udderly delightful.”
Buy it on Amazon (or your local bookstore or library if you bug them)!
In July 2022, Black Rose Writing published my latest novel, Mercy.
In a neighborhood nondescript except for how often small houses are being torn down to make way for big houses, a beautiful woman too young to be widowed waits for her husband to come home from prison. Arthur Baladino is getting out courtesy of a compassionate leave program, the theory being that he's too feeble to shoot anybody else.
Next door to the Baladino home, a little boy in a baseball uniform asks his father, "What happens when you die?" It's a question the father will soon confront in a terrible and surprising way.
To buy it from Black Rose Writing, click here, or search for it on Amazon or at your local bookseller.
