If you give a mouse a brownie, he's going to ask for some ice cream to go with it. When you give him the ice cream, he'll probably ask you for a spoon. He'll start drumming on the table. Drumming will get him so excited he ll want to start a band..

Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.

Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

Taking a mouse to the movies can lead to letting him do other things, such as making a snowman, listening to Christmas carols, and decorating the Christmas tree.

When the tailor becomes sick and cannot finish the waistcoat for the Mayor, the mice finish it for him.

Penny comes home from school eager to share her very own song, but must wait until the time is right to teach it to her parents and the babies.

Three mice make a variety of things out of different shapes as they hide from a scary cat.

"Best friends Cornbread and Poppy visit the Moonville Museum for a special celebration"-- Provided by publisher.

Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.

Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.