The Mouse on the Moon (novel)

First edition (publ. William Morrow)

The Mouse on the Moon is a novel by Irish author Leonard Wibberley. It was released in 1962 as the sequel to The Mouse That Roared and Beware of the Mouse. In it, the people of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a tiny isolated country in the Alps, attempt a space flight using wine as a propellant.[1] It satirizes the space race, Cold War and politics. In 1963 it was adapted into a film The Mouse on the Moon.[2]

  1. ^ Wibberley, Leonard Patrick O'Connor (1962). The mouse on the moon. New York: William Morrow & Co. OCLC 1260088.
  2. ^ Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin’s TV Movies and Video Guide, 1991 Edition, page 774, Plume, 1990