{"id":696,"date":"2018-12-20T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=696"},"modified":"2026-05-27T06:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:49:40","slug":"maximillian_mouse","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/product\/maximillian_mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Maximillian the Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"info-title\">by Mac Black<\/div>\n<div id=\"sectionAnnotation\" class=\"info-description showMore\">\n<p>Max is a mouse with issues.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to fit in with everyone around him\u00a0means that Max can\u2019t be himself &#8211; in fact, it\u00a0is downright dangerous being himself &#8211; so if\u00a0he is to carry on living with the horrible cat,\u00a0Camilla, and Mrs McSkimming, he needs to\u00a0change himself into someone else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The question is &#8211; is he going to be comfortable\u00a0with the result?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114218\" src=\"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/max_1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"715\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a whimsical departure\u00a0from his successful <a href=\"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/product\/sweaty-and-pals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sweaty<\/a>\u00a0(Children) and <a href=\"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/product\/please-call-me-derek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek<\/a> (Young\u00a0Adult) series, Mac Black\u00a0brings us a quirky new\u00a0character called Maximillian\u00a0&#8211; a resourceful mouse, with\u00a0some surprising ideas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mac Black<br \/>\nMax is a mouse with issues.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to fit in with everyone around him\u00a0means that Max can\u2019t be himself &#8211; in fact, it\u00a0is downright dangerous being himself &#8211; so if\u00a0he is to carry on living with the horrible cat,\u00a0Camilla, and Mrs McSkimming, he needs to\u00a0change himself into someone else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The question is &#8211; is he going to be comfortable\u00a0with the result?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[553,26,31,28,25,551],"product_tag":[214,207,530,181,531,97,529,290,98],"class_list":["post-696","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_author-mac-black","product_cat-artwork","product_cat-books","product_cat-children","product_cat-fiction","product_cat-home","product_cat-illustrated","product_tag-adventure","product_tag-cat","product_tag-chase","product_tag-children","product_tag-escape","product_tag-mac-black","product_tag-mouse","product_tag-pals","product_tag-relations-and-relationships","product_shipping_class-standard1","pa_rrp-23-899","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","add-to-wishlist-after_add_to_cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}