Two mice make a teeter-totter. They're balancing just fine, but then along comes a frog. Can they make room for one more friend on their teeter-totter?
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RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1985. If a hungry little mouse shows up on your doorstep, you might want to give him a cookie. And if you give him a cookie, he'll ask for a glass of milk.
When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing. One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in; first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax.
The mouse loves his bright, red strawberry, but he has competition from a big hungry bear. Young children enjoy learning what the mouse has to do to protect his freshly picked strawberry.
Mouse loves his friends for how special each one is - Pig because she's strong, Cat because she's brave, Dog because he knows how to help his friends... But what Mouse doesn't realize is how much his friends love him too!
