Story number 20 is here!
(We have reached 20 stories!😱)

Our next story tells the tale of an inquisitive field mouse called Henry who has a prickly encounter with Bertie the hedgehog, who is snoring in a compost heap! This story is part of a series written by a grandma wanting to keep in touch with her grandchildren before the days of email and video chat. (You can see the letters she wrote them when you swipe left ⬅️☺️)
It’s called: “The Adventures of Henry the Field Mouse” written by Jo Coker.
Illustrated by Barbara Richards.
Edited and published by Sue Dockstader.
 
Jo Coker:
“When my grandchildren moved to Hong Kong, I wanted them to stay interested in the English countryside, so I started writing stories for them about an imaginary mouse living under my garden shed! Little did I know my daughter would keep my flimsy airmail pages and publish them into a beautifully illustrated book 20 years later- so now little adventurers everywhere can read about the antics of Henry the Field Mouse!
Henry meets lots of different animals on his escapades, so I hope that my simple tales of adventure in an English back garden will encourage little ones to pull on their wellies and go outside to explore the countryside.
My original stories stretched to two books once the pictures were added, then after being persuaded a trilogy would be nice, I wrote another set of stories at age 85. Working with my daughter (who now lives in the US) to get the third book published was a wonderful way to keep busy and connected during this past awful year of lockdown and isolation.”   
 
To buy the books:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/HenryFieldMouse
or take trip to the beautiful Cotswolds town of Northleach and pick up a copy at the Post Office or the Black Cat Café.
 
To follow the continuing mother/daughter/granddaughter publishing adventures:
www.adventuresofhenryfieldmouse.com
@henryfieldmouse

Thank you Sue for getting in touch and I love how we have that HK connection!

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