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Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date: 06/15/2004
ISBN: 0-06-052979-2
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Genre:   Children: Ages 7-10
Reviewed: 2004
Reviewer: Carisa Weeaks
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The Postman Always Brings Mice 
The Stink Files: Dossier 001 
By Holm & Hamel

     James Edward Bristlefur was once the companion and partner of the top spy to ever work for “MI9,” but when Sir Archibald Ash is poisoned by a biscuit (“cookie” in American terms) after successfully saving the Queen of England from being kidnapped by terrorists, Bristlefur’s luck takes a turn for the worst. After being put into a dazy sleep during a flight to his human’s secretary’s sister in Norway, Bristlefur wakes to find that he has landed not in Norway, but in NEW JERSEY! Now this refined feline is forced to get down and dirty (literally) as he struggles to figure out what happened with his plans to go to Norway and revenge his beloved Archibald’s death, and who is trying to sabotage his efforts to get back to the life he once knew and away from the sticky-fingered little girl, the work-oriented mother, strange pet-shop owner father, and recluse of a boy that he’s been stuck with.

    The Postman Always Brings Mice is a hilarious story of a British-born, British-bred feline spy stuck in the middle of the suburban hell known as Woodland Park, New Jersey. Bristlefur, otherwise known as “Mr. Stink” for reasons that I’d rather not reveal out of sheer delight and wickedness, is a proud and multi-talented Bengal who prides himself on the knowledge he gained from the many years of being a spy. His wry wit and savvy humor will have you rolling in laughter the entire way through. There was no way anyone was going to get this book out of my hands once I started it. Bristlefur and his motley crew will have you in their paws until you force yourself to turn the last page and shut the book. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who is a fan of the type of humor I can only compare to as being a plotline worthy of the movie “Cats & Dogs.”