Author Molly Coxe Presents Children’s Book Program

Molly Coxe will entertain with tales from Brave Mouse Books at Darvill's this Saturday. Sorry, refreshments will not include tails.

Children’s author and Orcas resident Molly Coxe will present a program “Make a Mouse Open House” at Darvill’s Bookstore on Saturday, June 26th at 4p.m.  in the children’s book section of the store.

Coxe’s new book is Benjamin and Bumper to the Rescue, which will be available at the event.  Activities and refreshments will be part of the fun.

Coxe and her husband Craig Canine are the principals in Brave Mouse Books.

Brave Mouse Books is a” mouse-sized” publishing company with a “big, brave mission: to create books that young children and adults love to share together, and want to read again and again.”

Brave Mouse Books asks on its website, “Does the world really need more children’s books?” and answers the question: ” We are brave (or crazy) enough to believe: Yes, it does.”

Molly wrote the story, created the characters, and designed the mouse-size sets for Brave Mouse’s first book, Benjamin and Bumper to the Rescue. She has written and illustrated many children’s books, including Big Egg, Cat Traps, R is for Radish, Six Sticks, and Hot Dog, Fox Trot and Bookworm (Golden Books); Whose Footprints (Thomas Y. Crowell); and The Great Snake Escape(Random House).

Her books have been selected for the Children’s Book of the Month Club, featured in a Scott Foresman Addison Wesley reading-program textbook, and published in many foreign-language editions. They have won an International Reading Association “Children’s Choice” award, and sold more than 750,000 copies in the U.S. alone.

Craig Canine is co-founder, editor, publisher, and general dogsbody at BraveMouse Books. He has worked as an editor and writer at several magazines, including Newsweek. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Smithsonian, OnEarth, Gourmet, Reader’s Digest, Sunset, Eating Well, and The Atlantic. He is the author of Dream Reaper (Knopf and The University of Chicago Press).

Olivier Toppin, a French photographer who lives in Provence, took the photos for Benjamin and Bumper to the Rescue. He specializes in lighting effects that create a magical feeling inside his photos. His work has appeared in magazines, books, advertisements, and galleries.

Cedric Lafaye and Florian Bayer engineered and constructed many of the miniature sets for Benjamin and Bumper to the Rescue. Both of them live in the South of France, where they work as “Jacques” of all trades, and masters of several.

For more information, go to bravemousebooks.com