cover image Whose Mouse Are You?

Whose Mouse Are You?

Robert Kraus. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, $17.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-689-84052-4

Also celebrating an anniversary--its 30th--is Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus, illus. by Jose Aruego. Minimalist art and memorable text are more than the sum of its parts: ""Whose mouse are you?/ Nobody's mouse./ Where is your mother?/ Inside a cat,"" it begins forlornly, but reverses into a joyful ending, with the mouse reuniting his far-flung family and gaining a new brother. (S&S, $17 40p ages 3-7 ISBN 0-689-84052-7; Sept.)