Maurice heads into the Alps aboard a steam train. In the town where he disembarks, everyone is running to and fro convinced by their Prince that the sky is falling. Oswyn the owl is as suspicious as Maurice and he sets out to discover what is really happening. From this adventure comes a Moral Scroll based on lessons from The Buddha and Marcus Aurelius. Sticker book included.
The adventure of The Beans of Budapest, the eighth book in the Maurice's Valises series, is a charming tale of friendship set on the shores of the Danube River. Based on a pre-Confucius proverb, Maurice's journey with a band of gypsies demonstrates that it is more valuable to teach something to someone than simply to give to another.
In the Beginning is the first book in the series Maurice's Valises and follows Maurice, an endearing mouse, through his quest to learn life's lessons. With beautiful illustrations and humorous characters, even the youngest of readers will enjoy these moral tales. In this book, Maurice learns the value of always telling the truth.
The Micetro of Moscow is the second book in the Maurice’s Valises series and follows Maurice, an endearing mouse, through his quest to learn life’s lessons. In this story, Maurice travels to Russia, where he befriends a musical yet unpopular mouse and learns that everyone is special in their own way.
Casablanca is the third book in the Maurice’s Valises series and follows Maurice, an endearing mouse, through his quest to learn life’s lessons. In this story, Maurice travels to Morocco, where he befriends a bespectacled camel and learns the true meaning of friendship.
Medicine Mouse is the fourth book in the Maurice’s Valises series and follows Maurice, the endearing mouse, through his quest to learn life’s lessons. In this story, Maurice travels to America, where he is befriended by a kindly prairie dog and a medicine mouse who shares his life’s wisdom with Maurice.
On a snow-filled train track somewhere in Bavaria, Maurice comes upon an abandoned train car with a circus elephant and an anteater locked inside. Far down the track the circus master has discovered his stars have been left behind and a train is speeding back to recapture them. Can Maurice help Hope and Freedum escape before the circus master arrives? From this adventure comes a Moral Scroll based on the words of Albert Einstein. Sticker book included.
In Muuha of Bang Bua, Maurice travels to Thailand, where he encounters a wise mouse (the Muuha), an allegorical figure not unlike Buddha, who speaks about giving away his worldly possessions to be rich (of heart). It’s a story of not what you have but what you feel, and that less is more. Stickers included.
J. S. Friedman, Chris Beatrice, PorgrÃmur Práinsson
Paperback
(Mouse Prints Press, Jan. 6, 2017)
Chaturanga, the eleventh book in the Maurice’s Valises series, is an epic journey of adventure as Maurice struggles to overcome obstacles. Through the joys of friending with the Imps of Iceland, Maurice is rewarded with the gift of learning to be grateful.
Kansas and the Crow is the tenth book in The Maurice’s Valises series in which Maurice finds himself exploring in an American mid-western cornfield, meeting a lazy crow, the inhabitants of a secluded pond and experiencing the values of friendship and hard work.
Museum Mouse, a tantalizing travel tale of mystery and history set in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, is the ninth book of the Maurice’s Valises children’s series. Follow along with Maurice into a dark obelisk where he encounters his muse, her shadow and her prophesy of knowledge.
The twelfth book of the Maurice’s Valises series, The Book of Beeing, Maurice journeys to an abandoned mountain city in Peru where he discovers the great See Shell, is entrusted with the ancient golden scrolls, encounters his Muse and learns of his own origin.