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ABOUT THE BOOK
Bill Littlefield, late the host of NPR’s weekly sports magazine program Only A Game, wrote Who Taught That Mouse To Write? in part to enjoy it with his grandchildren. Light-hearted, surprising, sometimes profound and encouraging, the verses and illustrator Stephen Coren’s engaging drawings will delight readers of all ages on all sorts of levels.
How many books can children, their parents, and their grandparents read aloud together with delight and laughter?
As of now, one more than you thought!
The humorous, sometimes provocative, often goofy rhymes about smug, giggling termites, a jailed aardvark, a confused octopus, and a choir of cows among other extraordinarily entertaining animals make Who Taught That Mouse To Write? such a book. Rhyme-smith Littlefield’s doggerel verses are wonderfully complimented by the drawings of illustrator Coren. NPR’s Robin Young was moved to say Coren’s presentation of the singing cows was “udderly delightful.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bill Littlefield was the host of Only A Game from 1993–2018. He wrote his first commentary for WBUR in 1984 and shortly thereafter his work began airing on NPR’s Morning Edition -- where for a few years he hit second (Tuesday) in a line-up that included Frank Deford on Monday and Red Barber on Friday.
A graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Bill taught English at Curry College for 39 years and served as writer-in-residence there.
Bill’s books include Mercy (2022); Take Me Out (2014); Only A Game (2007); and others. He was the guest editor of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Sports Writing in 1998, and his work has appeared in the anthology.
