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Illustrated by
Adrian Reynolds.
To test into the Tickle Squad, a mouse must tickle a series of large, often dangerous animals as two other mice in lab coats observe and comment on his performance; bland cartoony illustrations depict the giddy results of each tickle session. The endpapers, displaying handwritten formulas on graph paper, help set up the faux-scientific premise for this one-joke story in rhyme.