The Flying Mouse

By Mariko Pratt

Merton, an adventurous mouse, has always dreamt of one day flying. Although his mouse family does not approve of his flying hobby, he never gave up on his dream. Through the help of his brother and other fellow creatures, Merton might finally reach the sky!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mariko Pratt
• Release date: Nov 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781973746577

Mariko Pratt

Mariko Pratt was born in Mountainville, California and grew up in McKinleyville, California where she now divides her time between writing and illustrating and garden work. She had taken up a career writing in order to combat bouts of artistic block. Her artwork had been featured in several local shows along with artwork by her mother Tsuya Pratt. Her first completed short story, Paulie’s Puppy was narrated online in 2012 and there are plans to feature this work in a series collection set in an alternate Humboldt County where the bizarre and surreal is commonplace.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all my teachers and art instructors, my family, especially for encouraging me to keep working at my writing/illustrating career and not give up.

I also want to express my gratitude to Kumi Watanabe-Schock in Library media for first mentioning Humboldt State University Presses to me, and Teresa Stanley for telling me about online publishing, also to the wonderful staff at Humboldt University: Kyle Morgan, Melissa Starr and everyone else for helping make this project a success.

On the edge of a large vegetable garden, there sat an old ramshackle tool shed. Although its paint

was cracked and peeling and its weathered cedar shingles were marked with patches of moss and lichen, its owner still maintained it enough to prevent its complete collapse.

In one corner of the shed near the worktable,