Shadow Of A Mouse

“Donald Crafton, our lively guide, shows us around a Tooniverse populated by performers, not just images, who engage us in all the ways their flesh-and-blood counterparts do, and then some. Taking classical animation as his terrain, Crafton nevertheless pushes ongoing discussions of performance, liveness, and corporeality in the directions in which they need to go if they are to help us describe and navigate our increasingly virtual worlds.” Philip Auslander, author of Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture "Every once in a while a book comes along that marks a transformational point in its discipline. Such a book is Donald Crafton's Shadow of a Mouse. Crafton skillfully draws together theoretical sources, animation history, technological development, and social analysis, deftly weaving together thinkers from Disney to Deleuze and Sito to Stanislavsky. The result is a substantial rethinking of animation that will reshape traditional approaches to the medium. Crafton's magisterial grasp of theory and history is livened by a true fan's passion for the subject and a keen sense of humor. Shadow of a Mouse is a must-read for anyone with an interest in performance, embodiment, popular culture, race, or reception." Mark Langer, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Carleton University

George's huge shadow always gets in the way and alienates him from his friends until, with the help of his shadow, he performs an act of bravery that wins his friends back forever.

This is the story of a mouse who sneaks into an old empty house. Once inside Mouse is followed by a big black cat, but as Mouse reaches the attic the black cat finds itself the target of a larger animal.

With remarkably detailed and beautifully crafted dioramas, Maggie Rudy retells the classic tale of the city mouse and the country mouse-with a new twist! Country mouse Tansy is out picking berries when she comes upon visiting city mouse William Gray. They become fast friends, and Tansy returns to the city with Will for an adventure. But city life doesn't suit Tansy, so she returns to the country alone. Apart, neither friend is happy—so they meet in the middle and decide to settle in a little one-café town. And there they live mousily ever after! A beautiful picture book retelling of a classic folktale and a celebration of friendship.

Minabell Mouse's animal friends come to her rescue when she becomes ensnarled with the Prairie Pirates, a gang of vicious rats determined to take over the mouse family's ancestral home, Mousehaven Manor.

A fully illustrated board book adaptation of the original Flip-Flap book, Mouse Goes to School is perfect for the toddler and preschool crowd with its sturdy board book construction and smaller format for smaller hands. Mouse and his friends are back! In Mouse Goes to School, everyone's excited about the first day. From riding the bus to story time and crafts, little readers will love turning the pages of this extra-sturdy board book to see what comes next. Sweet illustrations and charming characters make this the perfect present for little ones who are anxious (or excited) about their first days of school.

Collects IDW's Mickey Mouse #10-12 (Legacy 319-321).

A catalogue for an exhibition of works at the Royal Queensland Art Society Gallery of 10 artists who are also involved in animation.

Yilon is a young fox noble who's just come of age, in the city of Divalia, capital of Tephos. But apart from his best friend and sometime lover Sinch, he doesn't like much about living there. He only met his father, Volle, two years ago, when he left his mother and the city where he grew up. He would give anything to be allowed to leave Divalia.Or so he thinks. When a stranger arrives with a message that the Lord of Dewanne has died and appointed Yilon his heir, the young fox realizes that there are worse places than Divalia. Dewanne is one of the most remote cities in Tephos, where foxes rule, and mice are relegated to menial jobs and a slum outside the main city. Which makes it difficult for Yilon to explain why his companion is a mouse.Ever the schemer, Yilon hatches a plan to get sent home, but soon finds that even in a backwards town, there are complicated politics, ancient blood feuds, and family betrayals, old wounds that his clumsy steps have reopened. There are at least two different groups trying to kill him, and the foxes who might help him are the very ones he's done his best to alienate. Without Sinch, who's run afoul of a band of thieves in the slums and has his own death threats to deal with, Yilon will need all the stubbornness and cleverness he's inherited from his father just to survive to the next sunrise, let alone save his inheritance, his friend, and his own hide.

Take a simple kitchen hand who becomes the owner of a magical sword called the Spectre Blade that meets a traveling herbalist with a strange affliction involving teasing pixies who is a relative of a wise wizard that regards beards as useless facial hair and together meet a drifting elf who possesses a wondrous item called an Abundance Pouch that can store numerous goods and an adventure in the world of Everjade begins.