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Picture Book
March
Ten Old Men
and a Mouse
Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Gary Clement
The story of how
one little mouse
changed the lives of
ten tired old men
ISBN-13: 978-0-88776-716-6
ISBN-10: 0-88776-716-8
US $18.95
CAN $21.99
Juvenile Fiction – Animals
Ages 4–7
32 pages 8 x 10 HC
Rights: World
12/carton
JUV002000
On Sale: 3/13/2007
The synagogue was once a busy, bustling place, but now only ten
old men come to tend it and pray each day. Then one day, a little
scritch-scratch betrays the first new member in years: a tiny mouse
who has taken up residence among the holy books. Of course, a
trap must be set, but who will do it? Al volunteers, but in the
morning the mouse is still there, and is just a little more
appealing than he was before.
Day after day, the men become more engaged, until the
mouse has a bed, pictures on the wall, and a little carpet, not to
mention all the treats the men bring. Then comes the biggest
surprise of all. He is a she, giving the ten old men reason to
celebrate with peach schnapps – and to plan a trip to the country
where they find the perfect place to release their numerous
charges. Back at the synagogue, fall turns to winter. The ten old
men miss their mice until a little scritch-scratch….
Full of gentle humor and witty truisms, Cary Fagan’s Ten Old
Men and a Mouse will delight both the young and old. Illustrations
by Gary Clement heighten the fun.
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A native of Toronto, CARY FAGAN is an award-winning children’s
author, a writer of adult novels, and editor and contributor to a
number of magazines and newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, The
Montreal Gazette, and Books in Canada. His work has won the City of Toronto
Book Award and the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction. Cary has
written several picture books for Tundra. Including Gogol’s Coat, and The
Market Wedding. Daughter of the Great Zandini, winner of a Mr. Christie Silver
Medal, was Cary’s first novel for children. The Fortress of Kaspar Snit, was his
second. He also wrote Beyond the Dance, a biography of the National Ballet
of Canada’s prima ballerina, Chan Hon Goh which was shortlisted for
the Norma Fleck Award for children’s non-fiction. Cary lives in Toronto
with his two children.
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