Little Mouse (ePub)

I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1976. After finding and reading Henry David Thoreau's book Walden, I was move by this book that I felt it needed to have a factual fairy tale to attract young readers and older readers to this great book.

In Walden, under Brute Neighbors, he mentioned a little mouse that moved into his little house and soon became friends. I decide to base this story on this little mouse. But I wanted it to be factual; in other words, I wanted it to be based on what Thoreau himself learned about mice.

So I went to the library and found his journal. In the index, I looked under "mouse. " Lo and behold, there were about twenty-five places in his journal where he spoke about mice. So I copied all these pages and then proceeded to write this story based on what he had to say about mice.

I self-published five thousand copies myself then started to sell them here in my retail shop in Concord Center. It took about ten years to sell them all.

Then I asked the artist if she would do a new cover for the next five thousand. The date on the cover art work is 1996. A year later, on September 11, 1997, as I opened my front door to my gallery at about 9:30 a.m. here on Walden Street, there stood a little mouse on the sidewalk! Something took my attention away; perhaps the phone rang. Well, I forgot all about this little mouse.

The very next morning, as I opened my front door again, there was that little mouse standing there on the sidewalk. This time, it got my full attention. I walked back into my gallery and grabbed my 35 mm film camera with a telephoto lens and went outside. By this time, it started to walk up the alley next to my gallery that led to a parking lot. I started to take a few photos as it walked away from me.

Then I said out loud, "Stand still so I can take your photo." Well, it stopped and turned around and faced me. I zoomed in with my telephoto lens and took a picture. Then it turned

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