Lily Mouse by Cathy Scott

by Cathy Scott

An adventurous little mouse named, Lily, finds a cozy new home in a shoe box, inside a tall stone church, and along the way, also finds God. The fun and colorful illustrations of this book were uniquely done using fabric appliqué.Cathy Scott lives in Carmel, Indiana with her dog, Griffy. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa and has two adult children, who also live in the Indianapolis area.She has been involved with Christian education for many years, and loves the natural curiosity small children have about God and church. Cathy is an avid sewer, and enjoyed the new challenge of creating illustrations with fabric.The "bountiful garden" in the story is an actual garden at St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Carmel, Indiana. It is an ongoing ministry in the form of a vegetable garden, whose bounty is given to local food pantries. The vegetables are also used in meals cooked by the children of the parish for Outreach.The stack of shoe boxes in the story also really exists. The boxes are used for the Christmas Shoe Box Project, a two year old project where parishioners may fill a shoe box with specific small items, which are then distributed by local schools to children in need.

Paperback

First published May 5, 2011

About the author

Cathy Scott, a Los Angeles Times bestselling author, investigative veteran journalist and blogger for Psychology Today, has written twelve books. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Reuters and Las Vegas Sun. Best known for penning The Killing of Tupac Shakur and Murder of a Mafia Daughter, she taught journalism for five years at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her latest books are The Millionaire’s Wife and Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography, which won a best non-fiction award in 2014. Recent TV appearances include The Dr. Oz Show, Dateline NBC, the Today Show, Vanity Fair’s crime series. She lives in a renovated miner's cabin in the mountains of San Diego County with her three rescued dogs.