09 December 2018

Sunday Stamps | Q for Queen


This stamp belongs to a set entitled Picture Book Animals, issued by USPS on 10 January 2006. 

Maisy's ABC (1194) is a book by Lucy Cousins. The main character is a female mouse who lives in an orange house with a red roof. She loves to paint and play with her friends. Her birthday is February 10.

In the same letter, I received another stamp from that set: Frederick, the main character of the book with the same name by Leo Lionni (1967).


I have not read any of the books. But, somehow, Frederick on this stamp seems to me the poor relative of Queen Maisy...

I added this post to Sunday Stamps, for the letter Q.

13 comments:

  1. What an unexpected, however very welcome, character for Queen. Love these mice :)

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    1. At first, I thought she was a male mouse, and I have prepared this entry for K. It is not easy to distinguish, when it comes to drawn mice!

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    2. Not easy in real mice either :)

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    3. I very soon saw (read) Maisy Mouse was/is a 'she' (by the way, in the Dutch translations she simply is named Muis = Mouse).
      In contrary, for Miffy (Nijntje in Dutch = small rabbit) it took years, even a decade, for me to discover Ninntje was/is a 'she', too!

      Lovely stamps, and if you don't know the two mice, you immediately would think of a famous fairy-tale (some about a beggar and a prince(ss)).

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    4. That story was exactly what came to my mind :)

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  2. Somehow I missed reading Maisy Mouse (too old, I guess!)

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    1. You're never too old for reading any book.

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    2. I learned about (and read) Maisy at the age of 37 :-)

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  3. I enjoyed the set although Maisy was unfamiliar but cute

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  4. Minnie Mouse is the one I remember, bt these look fun.

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Thank you for coming. All your comments make me extremely happy.