Zip----Line Mice: The life and times of Rose Petal the mouse and all her workshop friends. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781548451325)

Pictures in the stories are connected by pictures made of words. Art was always Kathryn's favorite, she felt right at home working in several mediums. Designing and making patterns and sewing dance and theater costumes. Helping her daughter with her Stop Motion Animation project was a special treat. Besides sculpting Victorian Ice skaters for Bronze casting and ornaments for resin pouring, Kathryn makes molds of her sculptures and designs and casts jewelry. Kathryn married Kevin, also an artist and carpenter in 1979. Finances were so tight that the church let they family rent the parsonage. He did remodeling and repaired work to supplement the $150.00 rent and where both their daughters were born. Then in a gamble, Kathryn drew plans and patterns then started baking gingerbread to build an entry for the 1986 Good Housekeeping Magazines Gingerbread House Contest and won $10,000.00. With this seed money, Kathryn trained Kevin to be a Technician and they started a Dental Laboratory. It made a good living and with the lab over the garage, she could be a stay at home mom too. Now 30 years are gone and Kathryn at 64 is retired, and writing down all the inspired stories she's outlined over the years of quiet lab work. The Taylor family also had those two Corgi sister dogs, Madam Peach and Fox Girl, plus at least 25 rescue cats (not all at once). Monster is one of them. Watching the comical antics of animals always comes together to stir the creation of stories. But she is stimulated by most anything every day, always trying to see how things are made, Zip---Line Mice is the first book in a series, introduction story. Readers get to know the original character and more will be added in future books, already in the making. Josalyn, is really Kathryn's great niece. She is magical child, she would pretend to talk to a fairy she held in her hand. That vision alone was the final part of the mouse story she needed to put Zip----Line Mice on paper.