A Mice Christmas

“A Mice Christmas” by Leland James, is a delightful story in poetic form for children about a group of mice spending a wonderful Christmas at Valerie’s Place. Beautiful illustrations capture the joy and happiness of the mice until Valerie returns with Boris the cat. All ends well as they sing Merry Christmas to Valerie and scurry away before she put Boris down on the floor.

Author Biography

Leland James is the author of five books of poetry and a book on poetry craft. He has published more than one hundred poems in journals and magazines worldwide, including The Lyric, Form Quarterly, HQ, The Haiku Quarterly, Rattle, The South Carolina Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, New Millennium Writings, Osprey Journal, The London Reader, London Magazine, Vallum, Orbis, Magma, Arc, HyperTexts, As You Were, The Eclectic Muse, Foliated Oak Literary Magazine, The Magnolia Review, The Delinquent, Slipstream, Inklette, Monkey Kettle, Literary Juice, Nourish, and Midnight Circus. He was winner of the Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award for Poetry, The Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize, the Portland Pen Poetry Contest, the Writer’s Forum short poem contest, and was a winner of an Atlanta Review International Publication Prize. He was runners-up for the poetry prizes of the Sequestrum Editor’s Reprint Awards, Fish International in Ireland, the Welsh International, The London Magazine, and the Society of Classical Poets. He has received honors in dozens of other competitions, including the Golden Quill Awards, the Bridport Prize, Morton Marr, The Southwest Review. Leland has been featured in Ted Koozer’s American Life in Poetry and was recently nominated for a Push Cart Prize. www.lelandjamespoet.com