I'm not finished with that Arthur C Clarke story I started a day or two ago...but the mail-lady delivered a used...actually it looks new...maybe it is new...anyway, she delivered a book today while I was out blowing snow and I just now opened the package: Walter, The Story of a Rat by Barbara Wersba drawings by Donna Diamond. You got Walter on the cover standing up with a...small piece of fruit maybe...or maybe a chocolate malted milk ball...black and white so could be a number of things. Story starts out: Walter was a very old rat who lived with a writer named Amanda Pomeroy. And Walter is a reader. Heh! Reads whatever comes his way..."He had read a novel by Stephen King and three poems by Edna St. Vincent Millary." There's a few other works listed...thing is he read them at the dump, alas...The randomness of these choices was not his fault. He read whatever he could take from the dump... Heh! See, before he lived w/Amanda he lived at the dump...anyway, looks like a good story. Only 60 pages long.