{"id":20725,"date":"2025-07-19T05:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20725\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:11:10","slug":"former-npr-only-a-game-host-bill-littlefield-pens-who-taught-that-mouse-to-write-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20725\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NPR &#8216;Only A Game&#8217; host Bill Littlefield pens &#8216;Who Taught That Mouse to Write?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"The cover of &quot;Who Taught That Mouse to Write?&quot; and author Bill Littlefield. (Courtesy of Bill Littlefield)\"  width=\"880\" height=\"587\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752901870_607_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    The cover of &#8220;Who Taught That Mouse to Write?&#8221; and author Bill Littlefield. (Courtesy of Bill Littlefield)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billlittlefield.com\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bill Littlefield<\/a>, formerly of \u201cOnly a Game,\u201d has published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Taught-Mouse-Write-Other-Doggerel\/dp\/B0FBFK4R18\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Who Taught That Mouse to Write and Other Doggerel<\/a>,\u201d a collection of animal rhymes illustrated by Stephen Coren.<\/p>\n<p>He joins host Lisa Mullins to read a few selections and talk about the book.<\/p>\n<p>Book excerpt: \u2018Who Taught That Mouse to Write and Other Doggerel\u2019<\/p>\n<p>By Bill Littlefield<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by Bill Littlefield and Stephen Cohen. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2025\/07\/18\/bill-littlefield-book\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\"> Copyright 2025 WBUR <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cover of &#8220;Who Taught That Mouse to Write?&#8221; and author Bill Littlefield. (Courtesy of Bill Littlefield) Bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-20725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}