Dear Curious Dreamers,
Thank you for your patronage. The Kindful Mouse and the Gold Cash Register is my third children’s book with illustrator Susan Catelotti.  In 2017, Susan and I conjured up the sweet spirit of my grandfather in a mouse educator illustration. From thereon, I designed and implemented a mouse-sensible manners class. Over the next eight years, I designed and built out my Tampa shop on El Prado boulevard and created my second book, Wren the Weeping Willow Fairy which is dedicated to White Memorial Conservation Center in Litchfield CT. Wren leaves fairy dust in this book.
 
The Kindful Mouse represents  a cornucopia of memories and experiences in life and in the shop which I hope will resonate with children…the wee philosophers that they are. I designed the book for small hands to carry. 
 
The Kindful Mouse is also my vision board, as I am the kindly neighbor in the story. In the final quarter, I hope to rebuild my Storybook Shop and reveal all of my stories in the hills of CT where I hail from. 
 
I hope that you will treasure this book for years to come.
Your friend, Katie, designer of Silly Dilly's and lifelong curious dreamer