Birthday Mice!

Bethany Roberts. Clarion Books, $13 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-618-07772-4

When a mouse turns two, friends and family throw a cowboy theme party in Birthday Mice!, the fifth title in the Holiday Mice series by Bethany Roberts, illus. by Doug Cushman. (Oct.)

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