The Legacy of Little Mouse the Mouse - Paperback

by James Albert Jr. Barnes (Author)

Little Mouse, who lives in Little Butte Creek Canyon, is a unique and creative thinker who never shies away from challenges. His most recent achievement is modifying the power of a lever to become a model to help animals and inspire humankind to develop in body, mind, and spirit.
He contacts his good friend Dr. Barnes, who has been recording Little Mouse's adventures and relaying them to his students and book readers and invites him to come to his home in the mountains beside the Little Butte Creek to see this wondrous invention.
But there's a problem: Dr. Barnes has a visitor-his niece, Shauna. Shauna knows about Little Mouse from her uncle's stories, but she doesn't know this unique animal is someone she can actually meet-and she's about to. Want to see her shrink down into the size of a small mouse?
Children, teachers, and parents will be inspired by this heartwarming tale of ingenuity as Little Mouse demonstrates how the three parts of the lever-leverage, fulcrum, and balance-can guide them in seeking out and developing their true potential. Along the way, young readers will learn how to persevere in pursuit of their goals and know, as Little Mouse does, that where there's a will, there's a way.
Readers and listeners will take away from this story a road map to personal excellence. All of the essential aspects of a good maturing life are spelled out in Little Mouse's creative model.
The Little Mouse the Mouse series is for adults to read and enjoy, and then share with young people. Wonderful books if you like humor, wit, surprises, fanciful plots, and suspense, and would like a roadmap of life while removing roadblocks that get in the way. Wonderful with people ages ten to 110.
Most people who buy this book also purchase "The Little Mouse the Mouse Coloring & Activities Booklet."
Little Mouse's books will have children and adults asking themselves, "What would Little Mouse do?" They will learn how to confront situations with logic, perseverance, and pluck.
It's the little mice of the world that will make our future brighter. So, encourage your own big thinker(s) with this charming and heartwarming story.
Dr. Barnes wrote the Little Mouse the Mouse series to inspire the next generation. The entire Little Mouse the Mouse series was developed for adults to read and enjoy, and then share with young people. Good readers, however, can enjoy the Little Mouse series on their very own.
Readers report that this book is fun, humorous, and profound, and supports self-esteem and self-reliance.

Author Biography

James Albert Barnes Jr., PhD, is a retired elementary teacher, reading specialist, mentor, and school administrator. His sense of ambition started at a young age, when he took jobs ranging from picking fruit to apprenticing in his parents' meat market and delicatessen in a small mountain community in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California.

He lettered in baseball and boxing in high school and then went on to college and received a bachelor's degree in a business marketing, an elementary teacher credential, and master's degree in curriculum and methods at California State University, Chico, and a Ph.D. in early childhood education from the University of Oregon.

Throughout his career, he endeavored to pass on to his students a can-do attitude and love of learning and self-improvement. Little Mouse began as a way for Dr. Barnes to show his students they can accomplish anything they put their minds to.