Children learn about compassion, making new, different friends with disabilities and overcoming adversity with Charlie the Mouse and the Valentine's Day Taffy.

In this heartwarming story Charlie the wee, deaf mouse embraces the festive spirit of Valentine's Day in his brand new home: a warm, pleasingly aromatic bakeshop. It is Charlie's dream come true.
Euphoric with the sweet scents and scrumptious snacks the baker is whipping up by the day, Charlie accidentally finds himself in yet new surroundings and in the too-close-for-comfort company of every mouse's dreaded fear: a hungry cat. This story takes a different twist from the typical cat and mouse tale, however, and reveals how the likeliest of enemies can instead become best friends. Your child will delight in the colorful illustrations and learn new, grade level appropropriate vocabulary as the story unfolds of the cat and mouse who became forever friends.
Charlie the Mouse and the Valentine's Day Taffy is a new children's classic story book by author M.L. Heron-Heidel with co-author Peg Heron Heidel.