Use the scroll bar on the right to see lots of pictures - click on any picture to see it HUGE!!!

I found it quite by chance, sometime after the birth of this website -- so was very glad that I wasn't alone in my chosen interest!

Good books are hard to come by - well - not really - but if you know of one with any sort of mouse connection - then do tell!

OUR NEW EMAIL ADDRESS mousespotters@live.com

and if it is a good book - then we will mention it.

If you thought this site was a specialized - then take a look at this Publisher - who has a delightful collection of books about cookery - and I am the proud owner of the one below - Sugar Plums and Sherbet - as yet unread - but flicking through it looks wonderful! The first of many delightful illustrations is - yes - a sugar mouse.

"Who has not wondered how they got the marbling into humbugs and the fantastic patterns into Just William’s gobstoppers? The byways of knowledge that are illuminated make this so rewarding. Did you know how they got the letters into rock? How they twisted barley sugar? The difference between fudge and tablet? The connection between humbugs and an Arab sweet from 13th-century Spain (where it was borrowed it from the Persians)?"

Sugar Plums and Sherbert - the prehistory of Sweets

by Laura Mason. Published by Prospect Books http://www.kal69.dial.pipex.com

Also by Prospect Books

Windmills in my Oven

by Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra.

"This book explores the history and customs of the Dutch bakehouse while offering excellent recipes well-suited to the modern kitchen."

I think I will ask for this on my Christmas List.