Why Do We Love the Mouse?

by Michael Mullin

The world's most beloved characters - from Pluto to Pooh - speak candidly about the kinship they share with their pal Mickey Mouse. Taking off from the current "Why Do We Love the Mouse?" advertising campaign that features celebrities expressing their devotion to the Mouse, this clever keepsake contains "interviews" and "publicity photographs" of Mickey's highly animated bosom buddies.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2001

About the author

Fictional worlds can teach us so much about the one we live in. The experiences you bring back from the escape are what give stories their value. That's why you read, and that's why I read – and write.
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My author career began with a twisted fairytale retelling about the unknown 8th dwarf which turned into a trilogy of such tales. Over the years I've received book awards and industry recognition for which I'm very grateful. I'm currently working on a business plan for an educational company that uses the fairytale trilogy, TaleSpins, as curriculum to teach things like empathy and anti-bullying.

I've written marketing materials for the merch divisions of Disney, DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox, and Universal, but I gave all that up because I was tired of selling people junk that was just going to end up in a landfill. Before I was a writer, I was a preschool teacher and college professor, two positions I found disconcertingly similar.

I live in Pasadena, CA with my wonderful wife Dani and our ridiculously cool dog Finn. Our twins, Sophie and Max are finishing up their college careers. I couldn’t be more proud and amazed. Even though I've been in California since 1996, all my sports allegiances remain in my native New England.

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay so now I'm just cheating in order to reach my reading challenge goal. But I found this on the library's sale shelf and figured it would be a fun little thing to add to my niece's Xmas gift bag... 50 cents... re-homed book... the generational Disney brainwashing continues... my work here is done. You'd think from the Goodreads description that this is a substantial book, but really it's more of a slightly-extended greeting card, taking maybe 2 minutes to read. Every page (every 2 pages, really) shows a pic of a Disney character and a quote of them telling why they love Mickey. Not the most creative thing ever, but it'll be fun getting the kiddos to name the character and explain what each quote means (they all refer in some way to the character itself or to the story that particular character comes from... e.g. Piglet likes Mickey b/c he's brave). And then the book can move to its next home.

I just took more time writing this than I did to read it, so I'm not sure of the point other than possibly preventing someone from ordering this book online if their idea of it is something very different from what it actually is.