Twas the Day After Thanksgiving: A Lift-The-Flap Story

Mavis Smith. Little Simon, $5.99 (16pp) ISBN 978-0-689-85234-3

In 'Twas the Day After Thanksgiving: A Lift-the-Flap Story by Mavis Smith, a very grateful mouse, tucked behind a flap on each spread, upends the Clement C. Moore rhyme. To the opening words, Smith adds, ""and all through the house, a family ate leftovers""; readers lift the flap to close the refrigerator door, "" `Yum, yum!' said a mouse,"" shown poised to pounce from a countertop.

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