NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE AND NEW EDITION PAPERBACK! A wonderfully funny sequel to The Mouse That Roared. The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the world's smallest country, whose army of 20 longbow men defeated the United States in The Mouse that Roared is back again. While the Americans and the Soviets are racing to claim the moon, Grand Fenwick's famous physicist makes the perfect rocket fuel from the zingiest wine in the world and the SPACE RACE IS ON! Books in The Grand Fenwick Series: Books 2 through 5 are best read after The Mouse That Roared , but all of the books can be read and enjoyed at any point in the series. Book 1: The Mouse That Roared Book 2: The Mouse On The Moon Book 3: The Mouse On Wall Street Book 4: The Mouse That Saved The West Book 5: Beware Of The Mouse (A Grand Fenwick Series Prequel) ***All five books now also available in a Kindle series bundle-- The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set (Books 1-5)*** "Wibberley for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff!" -- The Los Angeles Times "Wibberley is in a class by himself in satiric narrative, and this...is brilliant." -- Richmond Times Dispatch "...an absolute, unmitigated delight." -- San Francisco Sunday Chronicle "Zany whimsy... A hilarious trip to the moon." -- Life Magazine "Fantastic, irreverent, cockeyed, funny and irresistible." -- Library Journal "Humor, glee, shining irony... The whole world running amuck." -- Christian Science Monitor "Wonderful spoof and delicate political satire add up to another masterful mouse tale." -- Library Journal To download a FREE 22-minute MP3 audio file of Leonard Wibberley reading his whimsically humorous Thanksgiving poem for children-- The Ballad of the Pilgrim Cat , visit his website at: bit.ly/PilgrimKat Leonard Wibberley was born in Dublin Ireland, in 1915. He was the sixth child of a schoolteacher and an agricultural scientist. When he was nine, his family moved to London. Seven years later, when his father died, he went to work as a stockroom apprentice for a publisher and later became a reporter. After various jobs, he came to the United States in 1943 and engaged in newspaper work for ten years. While working for the Los Angeles Times, he published his first work, The King's Beard . Three years later he published his most successful book, The Mouse That Roared , which was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post , and later made into a classic film starring Peter Sellers. Wibberley lived in Hermosa Beach from 1949 until his death in 1983. He wrote over 100 books and 100's of newspaper articles. He was also an adventurer, who enjoyed traveling, scuba diving, ocean sailing, and road racing. Leonard also wrote mysteries, juvenile fiction, historical novels, and non-fiction under the pen names Leonard Holton, Patrick O'Connor, and Christopher Webb. Sign up for his monthly newsletter at bit.ly/LeonardNews to receive columns written by Leonard Wibberley that were syndicated by newspapers nationally over his lifetime. You will also receive news of the upcoming releases of the ebook editions of his many novels, including his Father Bredder mystery series. To read more about Leonard and his life, check out his biography on Amazon: A MOUSE THAT ROARED: The Life and Writings of Leonard Wibberley by Dennis M. Duffy.
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| Mpn | Black & White Illustrations |
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| Condition | NEW |
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