Search Results for: blog sumo mouse david wisniewski

Pet Mouse Feeding

Posted on by

Your pet mice need a balanced diet in order to be healthy, playful, and happy. In fact, their diet needs much of the same basics a human diet needs! Your mice need carbohydrates: this is basically the main portion of the mouse diet. Whole or rolled oats, hay, stale whole wheat bread, cooked whole wheat pasta. Your mice need vegetables: vitamins and minerals come from fresh vegetables like greens, carrots, peas, and more. Some veggies (or too much of a single veggie) can upset the stomach and leave you with a very messy cage. Your mice need protein: this can … Continue reading →

Tough Cookie – David Wisniewski

This children’s picture book is hysterical, but it’s definitely geared toward the parents. Mom and Dad will have a good time reading it to their children. The story is patterned after the old gumshoe detective novels like Sam Spade. Our hero is a tough cookie, living in a cookie jar. He used to have it all, up there at the top, but as time passed, he fell in life and now lives down at the bottom with the crumbs. You don’t want to go down there by yourself; always travel in groups. It’s where the unsavory element hangs out. But … Continue reading →

Sumo Mouse – David Wisniewski

I spend a lot of time reading titles as I select which books to bring home from the library. This title made me laugh out loud, something you shouldn’t do in the library, but can you blame me? “Sumo Mouse!” With bright and colorful illustrations provided by the author, this children’s picture book is written like a melodramatic comic book with a hint of the old Godzilla movies thrown in for good measure. “Sumo Mouse” is the story of Tokyo besieged. All the mice have been stolen by evil cats and are captives at the Tanaka Toy Factory. They are … Continue reading →

The Toughest Cowboy (or, How the Wild West was Tamed) – John Frank

A former Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club main selection, “The Toughest Cowboy” tells us the story of Grizz Brickbottom, the toughest cowboy to ever ride a range. He drank a bottle of Tabasco sauce every day and flossed his teeth with barbed wire, that’s how tough he was. One night after a long day on the trail, Grizz decided he was lonely, and would like a dog. He told his compadres it was time to get some new company. They took exception to that – did he really think a dog was better than them? Well, a dog wouldn’t pick his nose, … Continue reading →