The Surfing Mouse
by Stefan Piccione
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GENRE: Children’s Fiction
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BLURB:
Everyone’s afraid of something. “The Surfing Mouse” is the story of a brave young mouse who overcomes his fear of surfing big waves. It shows how determination, strength, and a strong belief in yourself can help you achieve your dreams and goals. With stunning illustrations and a catchy rhyming story, this epic “tail” will surely captivate your children. Surf is definitely up!
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Stefan Piccione has enjoyed a lifelong passion for the ocean, an unrelenting love of surfing, and a great appreciation for a well-crafted story. This combination would eventually inspire him to write a children’s book about a courageous young surfing mouse. Stefan graduated from Fairfield University with a degree in film and a minor in Italian studies. Having written a myriad of songs, short films, a feature film, web series, and numerous children’s books, “The Surfing Mouse” is his very first children’s book. Outside of writing and surfing, Stefan enjoys playing guitar, soccer, basketball, and beach volleyball. He is an avid environmentalist, regularly cleaning up ocean and coastline plastic while out on his paddleboard or walking the beautiful beaches of Rhode Island. Stefan currently resides on the coast of Eastern Connecticut.
https://www.instagram.com/stefanpiccione/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23022306.Stefan_Piccione
My Review
A little mouse loves to surf, but does he have the nerve to face his fears? The surfer mouse goes out on a beautiful day. The beach shows lovely gentle waves, but for a mouse the waves are the perfect size. He enjoys the smaller waves until a much bigger wave comes in. As he sees the size of it he paddles as fast as he can to catch the right spot. It is too big for him and he has a rough time, barely getting back to shore in one piece. But, instead of giving up for the day, the surfing mouse decides to face his fear head on. He goes out to meet the wave and catches it in just the right time. He rides the huge wave and lands on the sand. He gets a lot of cheering from the other mice on the beach! This book shows children how to face their fears and overcome them.
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Yep, everyone has a fear of something. Cute cover.
How did you pick a mouse to be a surfer? Would never have though about them as water lovers LOL
Looks so cute! Thank you for the review, Lisa! 🙂
This looks like a cute book that kids will enjoy.
love the cover, so cute
Great excerpt and giveaway. 🙂 Cute cover.
Cute cover
cute
Looks like a good book to encourage!
sounds like such a great book
Love the beautiful book cover
Thank you for sharing your review of The Surfing Mouse, this sounds like a wonderful book to read with my grandchildren
the kids would enjoy this book
This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.
thanks this looks like a great book for any child
love the cover it just makes you smile
sounds like a cute book
My Grand Nephew would love this book!
love the cover
Hope you had a great weekend. Looking forward to reading this book.
such a fun cover
This book sounds like such fun! My grandchildren would love it.
this really sounds like a book that would pull a kid into it
Would love to share this adorable book with my niece
sounds like a really fun book to read
This book will be so much fun for my grandchildren. Thanks for the giveaway!
Was it a tie between a mouse and another animal or did you just want a mouse
Looking forward to reading this book
My grandson would love this book.
this must have been a fun book to write
what beach /ocean is this
my great nephew would love this book
eye catching cover
just love this cover, so cute
what can be better a great cover and good story
Sounds like a super cute book.
you must had fun writing this book
This book looks like a great way to begin to overcome a fear.
little surfer so cute
so is this an animation version of yourself
how did you pick the mouse’s name
how long have you been a surfer
sunds and looks like a fun ;book
where did you get the idea of a surfer mouse
does the mouse get a girl friend?
This looks like a good book
do you surf often
do you plan on continuing books with the surfing mouse?
such a cheerful cover
is this a start of a series?
this would be a great book to read to the kids
this sounds like a fun book full of laughs
the “Blurb” sounds really good
I like the cover, looks like something my girls would like.
great sounding book zay would really love it
love reading the authors bio- so interesting
looks like a fun one
books that are fun and full of laughs kids really enjoy them and this sounds fun
sounds amazing, best wishes with the book
It would be fun if the suring mouse attended surving invents all over the world
is surfing mouse going to get a girl friend?