Title: Mice and Beans
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Illustrator: Joe Cepeda
Theme: fantasy
Summary: Rosa Maria spends all week preparing for her youngest grandchild’s birthday party, unaware that all along the way the wrinkles in her plans are caused by some mice in her house. Every night she sets a mousetrap, and every morning it’s missing; she believes that she has forgotten, but the truth is that the mice are taking them (along with some other things) away. In the end, though, the mice save the party by filling the piñata when Rosa Maria has forgotten, and Rosa Maria realizes that maybe mice aren’t so bad to have around after all.
Characters: Rosa Maria, a few mice, Little Catalina
Comments: This is another story in which the pictures are as important as the text, and the reader gets to feel as if he/she is in on a secret that the main character doesn’t understand. The illustrations are great and invite children into Rosa Maria’s outrageous and entertaining world. Plus, the mice turn out to be likeable little creatures and the unlikely heroes of the story.
Grade level: Second-Third
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