The Adventures of Spencer the Church Mouse - Paperback

by Tracy Barron (Author), Georgia Graham (Illustrator)

Spencer is a gentle church mouse who is used to a quiet life in the country. No one had been in the church for a long time and Spencer was content.

But suddenly a loud thud broke the silence and the building lurched from under him. A big machine was lifting his church house up, up, up, and away. Spencer had seconds to decide whether to stay safely behind or embrace the adventure of a lifetime. He hoped for the best as he leapt into the air and scrambled back into the only home he has ever known. What adventures await him? How will this well-mannered country mouse fare when he meets his field mouse cousins?

Tracy Barron moved the former Rawdon Gold Mines Union Church in Hants County, Nova Scotia, to a new location and repurposed it into her home. It sits on the site where her great-great grandparents' farmhouse once stood and where four generations of her family were raised. It wasn't long after the church building arrived at its new home that a family of mice came along to live within the walls. This is the story of one of these mice.

Author Biography

Tracy Barron is a former award-winning journalist for The Telegram daily newspaper and CBC Radio in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She splits her time between her church home in Rawdon Gold Mines, Hants County and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Georgia Graham graduated from the Alberta College of Art where she majored in Visual Communications. She has written and illustrated Cub's Journey Home, Where Wild Horses Run, The Lime Green Secret and A Team Like No Other. Georgia lives in Lancombe, Alberta.