Mother's Mother's Day
Six generations of female mice celebrateMother's Mother's Dayin a gifty, hand-sized volume. Hazel brings a bunch of violets to her mother, who is not home because she is delivering a gift to her own mother, also not at home. This continues until Great-Great-Grandmother finds an unfriendly cat instead of her own mother, sending all the mice scurrying into hiding together. Balians delicate, cozy illustrations ably capture the characters' emotions. --Publisher's WeeklyHazel the mouse goes to visit her mother, who is out visiting "her" mother, who is out visiting "her" mother, and so on until the last mouse encounters a menacing cat and all flee, meeting up with one another along the way. Delicate line drawings of Potteresque mice and woodland flora decorate this slight story, here reissued in a small, square gift edition. --Horn Book Guide--This text refers to an alternateHardcoveredition.