an adventurously cosy town,
where mice set sail on miniature sailboats,
and in winter,
try the ice! all images are copyright Maggie Rudy and found via her website at MouseHouses.blogpot.com.
they can also go on holiday,
it is the brainchild of Portland, Oregon-based author Maggie Rudy, She has been making the mice for her children’s books for nearly a decade. But even she says she couldn’t anticipate how big their little world would become, “I made little felt mice to entertain myself, and later as a project with my sons’ school,” Rudy said in an interview with fellow author and illustrator Andrea Skyberg. “I began taking photos of the mice, and to think about using them as illustrations. I only need a few things…grey felt, pipe cleaners, cotton and beads.”
Her
first book, The House That Mouse Built (2011), follows the story of
Mouse and Musetta, who live in a loaf of bread, use salt-shaker end tables, and
other adorably clever things. Since then, Rudy has published I Wish I Had
a Pet, and most recently in 2017, City Mouse, Country Mouse, and
she’s also taken her little mice on tour to West coast bookshop windows in the
past,
“Maggie started creating these little creatures as a project,” says Skyberg,
“[for] incoming kindergarteners transition to school.” Her stories that
were simple, whimsical, and familiar, who of us has not wished to know their future?
and for those in need of help, at the
moment, Rudy’s mice are not for sale, but her
books are, and you can follow her little friends’ whereabouts on
her Instagram, what a cute idea, but of course these are made of modern materials and are not like the fanciful Victorian taxidermy using real animal skins.
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