Books like Mice Twice
By Joseph Low
For the kid who cheers for the underdog and loves watching a clever escape unfold, this one turns a dinner invitation into a battle of wits. Sly, playful, and full of back-and-forth trickery.
When evening falls, a crowd of bats flutters from the rafters to fill a moonlit stadium, watching their own all-stars play a topsy-turvy game of baseball.
A witch and her cat fly happily on a broomstick until the wind blows away her hat, bow, and wand — and the animals who return them all want a ride, leaving no room to spare when a hungry dragon attacks.
A young spider records his everyday life in diary entries — spinning sticky webs, scaling walls, taking wind-catching lessons, and surviving the occasional run-in with a vacuum cleaner.
An elephant named Horace turns eleven and throws a costume party for his exotically dressed animal friends, but when it's time for the feast, someone has already eaten it all.
Two little cave rock formations sit through millions of years of history — trilobites, dinosaurs, ground sloths, bats — growing so slowly that only their friendship stays constant, drip by drip.
On a farm where the horse eats hay and the hogs devour slop, the farmer makes his daily rounds only to find that the cow wants something entirely unexpected: cookies.
The messiest monster in Booville and her fussiest, cleanest neighbor argue constantly — until Harry Beastie's wild Halloween party throws these two feuding creatures together.
A boy named Ned races a thousand miles to a surprise party, and every stroke of good luck — a borrowed airplane, a handy parachute — flips into disaster and back again.
A squirrel named Mr. Peanuts lives a surprisingly human life — playing piano, reading books — and writes to invite his cousin over, hoping for company.
Three dust bunnies named Ed, Ned, and Ted love rhyming games — bug, rug, mug, hug — but a fourth named Bob keeps breaking the pattern, trying to warn them about a broom-wielding danger heading their way.
Two dogs named Nap and Winkle both dig up the same bone and can't agree on who found it first, so they wander the countryside asking every passerby to settle the argument.
An older man decides to finally write the mystery novel he's always dreamed of, with his cat curled up beside him — but tasty snacks and cozy distractions keep getting in the way.
