January 14 , 2019
"The Mouse with the Broken Tail" by Dan Shutters wins the Sunny Award for Speckled Egg Bestseller in 2018
Dan Shutter's Old Testament allegory turned into a contemporary tale was the 2018 bestseller for Speckled Egg Press, an imprint of Sunbury Press, Inc. of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. About the Book: Join Sam the mouse as he leads his mouse tribe from the dangers inside the house to the promised land Outside. Will they finally escape Faro the cat? Will they finally be free? Along the way, the group learns about hard work, creative thinking, and the benefits of self-sacrifice. However, the Outside is not without its own challenges! This charming tale gently deals with various issues that face children, the power of evil vs. the power of God, the reasons for warnings, faithfulness, and the ability to change among others. Rev. Dan Shutters wrote this parable of the Book of Exodus for use as a series of children's sermons. About the Author Rev. Dan Shutters was ordained in 1969 after graduating with a Master of Divinity degree from Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Waterloo, Ontario. He is a pastor with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has been delivering messages for children for most of his ministry. Always in search of unique ways to communicate, he is a member of the Society of American Magicians, performing the stories from his book, "Magic in Ministry". In the early days of home computers, he wrote "Farway" as an educational program for Lutheran World Relief which illustrated the problems encountered by bringing wells to African villages. In 1979, the Red Cross asked him to help with the children in the Hershey, PA shelter set up during the accident at nearby Three Mile Island.