Nice On Ice! Mice on Ice by Rebecca and Ed Emberley

There's snow on the ground and ice on the pond, and a troupe of young mice in colorful knitted winter garb and old-fashioned curved skates tramp to the skating area.

MICE ON ICE LOOK NICE.

The skillful mice slide and glide, swirl and twirl. They leave skate tracks behind on the once smooth ice. But then, one mouse looks down, and with a frown, notices the telltale pattern of a cat face in those ice traces. Yikes!

THAT IS A CAT!

No doubt of that! Should all the mice skat?

No dice, in Ed and Rebecca Emberley's exuberant picture book for emergent readers, Mice on Ice (I Like to Read) (Holiday House), in which the gallant mice share the ice with a skating cat. The cat in the funny hat turns out to be both benevolent and artistic and a good time is had by all. Daughter Rebecca Emberley adds an ebullient Kaleidoscope of colored-paper sculpture illustrations to her Caldecott-winning father Ed Emberley's controlled but poetic rhyming text, inviting the emergent reader to read this one solo.

All created by famous author-illustrators, other books in this top-notch series for early readers include Ethan Long's Pig Has a Plan (I Like to Read), I See a Cat (I Like to Read), by Paul Meisal, Little Ducks Go (I Like to Read), by Emily Arnold McCully, and Fix This Mess! (I Like to Read), by Tedd Arnold.