Teusy, the Little Mouse Who Almost Missed the Boat Preface

Children love Teusy, the Little Mouse That Almost Missed the Boat. This is the original charming and captivating story of Noah and Teusy’s adventures on the ark. Grandma Jane and her grandson found Teusy (pronounced “2-C”) entertaining and pleasantly instructive during a quiet moment at a family gathering. The above picture was captured during a birthday party for Isaiah’s grandfather. Notice that Isaiah is pointing to Noah in the rainbow picture while Grandma Jane explains the meaning of the rainbow. Isaiah was quite excited about the way God preserved Noah and his family when the flood overwhelmed the world. Later Isaiah was able to color the many pictures the artist, Calie Middleton, drew for boys and girls. This is an eighty page, comb-bound book.

Read the book’s Preface below to read how God used the story of the flood and my son to change a little boy’s life many years ago. You will want to read the story of Teusy to your children, grandchildren and neighbors. Footnotes help coordinate the Biblical events with Teusy’s adventures. For a short time an extra copy of the colorful 8 ½ by 11 picture of Noah and the Rainbow, suitable for framing, is being offered with the purchase of Teusy, the Little Mouse That Almost Missed the Boat. You don’t want to miss this opportunity!!

PREFACE

This is an unusual preface. It’s a story. Of what value is the telling of the story of the flood and the ark to children? What will it accomplish? One evening the telling of that story at our dinner table produced a surprising development. Let me tell you what happened.

Our family practiced having “devotions” at every meal. This involved reading and memorizing Scripture and telling Bible stories. One evening was special. We had two little guests. These were the children of a gentleman who had hired me to care for them and this was their first experience in our family. They were obviously untaught in the Word and were quite impressed.

For this evening’s story I chose Genesis six through nine. When I told the children that God destroyed every living thing, Warren was incensed.

“That was mean of God to kill all those people!” he exclaimed.

“But don’t forget, Warren, that God had been warning them for one hundred years. They should have listened and obeyed God. They should have gotten on the ark like Noah told them to.” Incensed, he responded, “Oh, that’s why they drowned. They should have listened to God.”

“Yes,” I told him, “but it’s good to realize that the ark is a picture of how God saves us. We do bad things, too, and God’s own son was put to death on a cross. He died in our place so we could have our sins forgiven and we can go to heaven. That’s like the ark God provided to save Noah and the bad people of his day just like God provided Jesus to save us.”

I wasn’t sure he understood all I had said but, now, it was time to go to bed so off they all went.

The bedrooms were all upstairs. Not long after the children went to bed, my son Dale, called down over the banister, “Mother, Warren, has something to tell you.”

My first thought (why do we think negatively so often!) was, “Now what? Just another excuse for staying up longer. Then aloud I asked, “What does he want to tell me?”

“Well, we talked about the flood and the ark and Warren said he wanted to accept Jesus as his saviour,” Dale replied.

You can imagine my surprise and joy that Warren was now a real part of our family. But there was another reason for my joy: my son, Dale, had led Warren to the Lord! That would put joy in any mother’s heart, wouldn’t it? And the change in Warren was obvious.

In fact, just remembering that episode gives me joy right now. Do you wonder why I got excited when God gave me the story of Teusy?

Oh, may our dear Lord bless you as he blessed me

Dorothy E. Kreiss Robbins

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Calie is a wonderful artist. She is now doing birthday cards using the picture of the person whose birthday it is. Contact Calie using my e-mail address: der1776@americanchristianhistory.com

Calie Middleton has been drawing since childhood. She attended Portland Museum Art School where she was a Gold Key Art Awards participant as well as took classes at Shasta College in Redding, California, where she makes her home. She has won many awards but disparages them because "It's all the Lord's doing."

Calie prefers pencil renderings and colored pencil drawing. Some of her activities as an artist are: Illustration of children's books, calligraphy for QCI international, creating the "Teddy Bears" for Elizabeth Dewar's greeting cards, illustrating the Speakers Bureau brochure for Shasta College of Redding as well as their retirement posters, created and illustrated Creation Evidences, a slide series, and Teusy (of course!).

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