The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Pomerantz, Charlotte

The Mousery

40 pp. | Harcourt/Gulliver | September, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-15-202304-6 $$16.00

(4) PS Illustrated by Kurt Cyrus. Sliver and Slice, two grouchy old mice who live a miserly life in an abandoned car, routinely turn away other neighborly mice as well as those in need. However, one cold winter night, they open their home to four young mice, changing everyone's lives forever. Although the rhyme becomes tedious, the book includes many child-pleasing details in the illustrations, including Sunday comics wallpaper, an oil-can furnace, and mice clad in denim overalls.

Reviewer: Anne St. John