A boy is sure he has the world\'s best father, an outdoorsman who shows him the hiding places of ground-nesting birds and teaches him to paddle a canoe and handle a rifle safely.
This story is Will at his best: a man, a boy, and a Mouse in a camp together, a tender story of respect and caring for one another in the most important ways.--Baird Edmonds, retired designer, contractor.
Over fifty years we\'ve paddled, climbed, hunted, and fished together, and listened to each other.
It was the beginning of an enduring and profound friendship.
Advance Praise When I was a 15-year-old kid, Will arrived in our tiny Adirondack Mountain town.
He lives in Bradford, Vermont.
He has also co-written The Way Life Works with noted biologist Mahlon Hoagland.
Bert Dodson is the author and illustrator of the best-selling learn-to-draw classic Keys to Drawing as well as the illustrator of over 80 children\'s books including a previous one with Willem Lang.
He lives with his wife in East Montpelier, Vermont.
This is his third children\'s book with Bert Dodson.
Willem Lange is a short-story writer, columnist, commentator, and host on Vermont Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television.
The White-Footed Mouse is Willem Lange\'s and Bert Dodson\'s latest collaboration, a delightfully illustrated parable for lovers of nature and the great outdoors and for kids who want to keep their Dads in line.
Later, when his father begins to bait a Mouse trap, the boy wittily reminds his Dad of the lesson he had taught him.
The boy feeds him a bit of cheese and sees that the Mouse trusts him.
A few minutes later, a tiny, shivering White-Footed Mouse emerges from his nest to share the warmth of the stovepipe.
They climb through dark woods to the icy-cold camp, where Dad starts a fire in the stove.
When he\'s eight years old, he is finally allowed to go to hunting camp with his father.
Never point your gun at anything you don\'t intend to shoot, his father tells him, and don\'t kill anything you don\'t intend to eat.
A boy is sure he has the world\'s best father, an outdoorsman who shows him the hiding places of ground-nesting birds and teaches him to paddle a canoe and handle a rifle safely
