She is best known for her novel "The Tale of Despereaux" about a little mouse who has some big adventures.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

To produce these animals, researchers inject fertilized mice eggs with foreign genes, and then place them in the uterus of a female mouse.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

She said "My old job had become Mickey Mouse, Now I have much more creative one."

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Mickey Mouse,of course is Walt Disney's famous animal drawn from movies, television and comic picture books.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings and open fields.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

And years when most of us still thought of a "mouse" as a small creature.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

A computer mouse is the device that moves the pointer,or cursor, on a computer screen.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Computer expert Douglas Engelbart developed the idea for the mouse in the early nineteen-sixties.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

The first computer mouse was a carved block of wood with two metal wheels.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

It was called a mouse because it had a tail at one end.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

The specially chosen genes are then expressed in some of the mouse's babies.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

But what does a mouse have to do with a job.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

The mouse moves the pointer,or cursor, on the computer screen.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

"I have something to tell you, white mouse," she said.

VOA: special.2009.08.01