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  Easter Mice!

  Bethany Roberts

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  Easter Mice!

  Easter Mice!

  BY BETHANY ROBERTS

  ILLUSTRATED BY DOUG CUSHMAN

  Clarion Books • New York

  Clarion Books

  a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint

  215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003

  Text copyright © 2003 by Barbara Beverage

  Illustrations copyright © 2003 by Doug Cushman

  The illustrations were executed in watercolor.

  The text was set in 21-point Palatino.

  All rights reserved.

  For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book,

  write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company,

  215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003

  www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com

  Printed in Malaysia

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Roberts, Bethany.

  Easter mice! / by Bethany Roberts ; illustrated by Doug Cushman.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Four mice enjoy a beautiful spring day as

  they hunt for Easter eggs.

  ISBN 0-618-16455-3 (alk. paper)

  [1. Easter—Fiction. 2. Mice—Fiction. 3. Eggs—Fiction.

  4. Easter eggs—Fiction. 5. Stories in rhyme.]

  I. Cushman, Doug, ill. II. Title.

  PZ8.3.R5295 Eas 2003

  [E]—dc21

  2002007973

  TWP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

  Happy Easter to Bob, Krista, and Melissa

  —B.R.

  To my friends at Sot-l'y-Laisse

  —D.C.

  Easter mice hop, hop, hop!

  Time for the egg hunt. Who will win?

  Easter mice jump, jump, jump! Ready, set, let's begin!

  Look, look around the tulips.

  One egg, two eggs, three eggs, four!

  Peek, peek behind the daffodils.

  Spotted eggs, striped eggs! More, more, more!

  One little mouse picking flowers.

  Sniff! Whiff! Spring! Fling!

  Mud pies, mud feet, wiggle like a worm.

  Laugh with a ladybug swing, swing, swing!

  Ride, glide, boating in a puddle.

  One little mouse falls in. Splash!

  Leapfrog, leapfrog, bounce, bounce, bounce.

  Race with a robin, dash, dash, dash!

  Stop the egg hunt! Count! Let's see—

  which little mouse has won, won, won?

  One has the MOST eggs, One has the BIGGEST egg

  one hasn't found an egg— no, not one!

  A sad little mouse, wishing for an Easter egg, runs away, feeling blue.

  Sighing, spying, trying to find an egg. Looking, looking. What to do?

  Stamp, tramp, trip on a toadstool.

  Stumble, tumble, bump, bump, bump!

  Down, down, roll down the hill

  HERE is an Easter egg! Jump, jump, jump!

  Four Easter mice dance in the spring-shine.

  Dizzy, whizzy, step, hop, bend.

  Most eggs, biggest egg, one has the BEST egg.

  CRACK!

  Surprise!

  An Easter friend!

 

 

  Bethany Roberts, Easter Mice!

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