With Love, from Cold World

by Alicia Thompson

“Anyway.” She shook her head, giving a little laugh. “The movie was about this clockmaker and his family, and then a family of mice who lived in the house, too. It’s silly, but as a kid I liked the way the humans and the mice coexisted like that, so casual. Like when they have a problem they need to solve together, the dad mouse just pops up on the clockmaker’s book at bedtime, dressed in a full coat and scarf while he tells the clockmaker about how his son wrecked his apology clock to Santa.”

I was so excited for this reference. No one EVER knows this movie!