In The Invasive Species, readers learned about Mary Pfaff [1] and her charming Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat series.
When Alice Mongoose sails from India to a sugar plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii, she is shocked to learn what her new job entails. She decides instead to strike out on her own. When she meets the gentle and dapper Alistair Rat, she knows that she has found a friend in her new Hawaiian home.
The Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat stories are classic tales of adventure, resilience, and friendship, beloved to this day by children of all ages. Now they have brand-new covers and formatting!
The new covers showcase and center the unique and charming artwork. A Goudy Kennerly font lends an early 20th-century flavor to the design. The size is changed from 8 x 10 to 6 x 9 to accommodate little hands. See the Alice and Alistair books HERE!
[1] Parts of Mary Pfaff’s biography are verifiable. The Hawaiian Gazette was a semi-weekly publication of the Honolulu Advertiser. The Pacific Cable was completed in 1903, enabling news to travel across the ocean almost instantaneously. Editor Roderick O. Matheson did move to Japan around 1918, where he took the position of news editor of the Japan Times & Mail and served as the Chicago Tribune‘s foreign correspondent in Tokyo. However, Mary Pfaff, her family, and her books were crafted as part of the Professor Molly literary universe.