If You Take a Mouse to School
Ah, mice. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Laura Numeroff and  illustrator Felicia Bond, creators of the bestselling picture booksIf You Give a Mouse a CookieandIf You Take a Mouse to the  Movies, are back withIf You Take a Mouse to School. As you might  imagine, there are great risks in bringing your mouse to school. For starters,  he'll ask you for your lunchbox. And then a sandwich. And a snack for later.  Still not satisfied, he'll want to participate in everything from math to  soccer. Children and adults alike will revel in the hilarious, very cute  illustrations of the mouse in the classroom: hanging from the top corner of the  blackboard to spell (aptly enough) "precocious" and "adrenaline," writing  "'Goodnight Mouse' by Mouse," sitting inside the boy's open backpack playing  with a yo-yo, etc. This book is more episodic in nature than the truly  cause-and-effect formula of the previous books: "If you give a pig a pancake,  she'll want some syrup to go with it." Nonetheless, kids who know and love this  rollicking read-aloud series will laugh and play to see a mouse at school. (Ages  4 to 8)--Karin Snelson