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K-3
While raiding a house for breakfast, a little mouse gathers a teetering stack of snacks--a bright blueberry, crunchy cookies, etc.--only to drop them when reaching for "his favorite." As it happens, the sunflower seed is all he can carry as he makes a quick escape from the resident cat. The alliterative, read-aloud-ready story is well served by visual humor in the watercolor, gouache, and pencil-crayon illustrations, including an amusing last-page joke.