The Old Lady And The Meadow Mouse

This is a true story that took place up in the high sierra mountains in the 1960s. Its about an Old Lady and her humorous experience with a meadow mouse while she was staying in a rustic old cabin. The Old Lady has a difficult time trying to sleep because the meadow mouse finds entertaining ways to awaken the Old Lady during the nighttime hours. You will find this short story very entertaining and easy to read.

Brilliant, poetic, a master of fantastic symbolism and emotional portraiture, John Crowley is one of the finest contemporary American novelists. As Harold Bloom writes in his Preface to this book, "Crowley writes so magnificently that only a handful of living writers can equal him as a stylist . . . Of novelists, only Philip Roth consistently writes on Crowley's level." Engine Summer; Little, Big; Aegypt; Great Work of Time; The Translator: these are only the highlights of a twenty-five year literary career of extraordinary depth and eloquence. Yet Crowley has not been the subject of a full-length critical study until now; Snake's-Hands remedies this lack, in full. In Snake's-Hands, Alice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi assemble a host of brilliant essays on the fiction of John Crowley, by such eminent writers and critics as John Clute, Thomas M. Disch, James Hynes, Brian Attebery, and Bill Sheehan. Explore with them Crowley's fantasticated retellings of the Hundred Years' War and of innumerable beast fables; his subtle rendering of the bucolic decline of Earth; his astonishing, multi-leveled vision of the fairylands deep within mundane reality; his British Empire upon which the sun, heartbreakingly, never can set; his glowing, brooding trio of Hermetic masterpieces; his tale of poetry at war with nuclear annihilation. Wonders of artistry, the artistry of wonder: Crowley is a genius, and Snake's-Hands demonstrates this alluringly, in a potent mosaic of insights. Snake's-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley is the essential guide to the work of a great writer, and a landmark of criticism in its own right.

"Award-winning authors and illustrators - including Janet Lunn, Ian Wallace, Brian Doyle and others - come together in this sparkling volume of stories and poems. A gift of great variety, wtih something for every child" Cf. Our choice, 1996-1997.

The friendship of Red Fox -- The rescue of Chuana -- The legend of Sotoju Mountain.

This is the touching story about a woman and a mouse finding in each other a friend they can count on. All written in a fun rhyming story.

The first detailed biography of this renowned American poet