GAITHESBURG, Md., Jan. 7, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teamwork and offering a helping hand will surely lead you to great results and honor. In this second book of author Daniel Knowles's book series, Mouse Trilogy, you'll find yourselves in another amazing adventure as you join the mice as they become heroes when the worst disaster of Grand Canyon history strikes. It's time to Return to Mousetown, so prepare yourselves for another wonderful journey.
Two airliners collide over the mice, while they are in a rubber raft on the Colorado River. Amid falling wreckage all around them, the mice become heroes as they search for victims and try to keep wild animals away from the crash site, until human rescuers arrive days later because of the inaccessible location. Unfortunately, there were also casualties on their end. Some of the brave mice perished in the long hazardous search and rescue operations. Despite the mice's efforts, there were no survivors in the worst commercial air crash in US history prior to 1956.
The rodents were honored for their heroic assistance. They were given a Whirlwind Guided Tour of the American West, complete with their own certified tour guide on a sight seeing bus, donated by a bus company, which previously displayed the pictures of a dog on the sides of the bus but now had a mouse. Some of the places the mice went to visit were the bats at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. They climbed Pikes Peak in Colorado. In Yosemite National Park, the mice scaled up the massive granite face of El Capitan, named after a lowly Inchworm which had crawled up the 3,500-foot cliff to rescue two baby cubs, then the mice ate lunch at the world-famous Ahwahnee Hotel beneath the towering cliffs of granite. The rodents went to the meteor crater near Winslow Arizona. They slept in old covered wagon ruts on the Santa Fe Trail at Chimney Rock, Nebraska. In Utah, the guys walked on top of the Great Salt Lake. In California, they climbed up the Giant Sequoia and Redwood trees. They visited Hoover Dam and Death Valley and went to Devil's Tower in Wyoming. In Yellowstone, they rode on Buffalo. The guys carrying their six-shooters went to the old Western Towns of Deadwood, Cripple Creek, Cheyenne and Dodge City. In Tombstone, they thrilled crowds in the OK Corral. In South Dakota, the mice at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills climbed on top of the presidents' heads. And this is just the beginning of their voyage. So, come and join them as they visit the West, before they Return to Mousetown and another 98 new stories deep inside the earth.
About the Author
In 1949, while Daniel Knowles was in the fifth grade, he started writing a story about a mouse, whom he named Peter, that would take half a century to complete. After a tour in the US Marines in the 1950's, he continued to write, and by the early 1960's had completed one version of this story, some five hundred pages long that included many illustrations. After retiring from a career as a firefighter, he sat down to complete his tale and ended up with a more contemporary version. He has developed some of the characters further and added many hundreds of new ones, in this second of three completed books with a fourth being written. The work is directed towards readers ranging in age from 5 to 100.
Return to Mousetown * by Daniel S. Knowles
Publication Date: December 26, 2008
Trade Paperback; $23.99; 604 pages; 978-1-4363-5935-1
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