Review of The Mouse Who Loved Latkes

by Elissa Gershowitz
Nov 24, 2025 | Filed in Book Reviews

The Mouse Who Loved Latkes The Mouse Who Loved Latkes
by Joy Nelkin Wieder; illus. by the author
Preschool, Primary    Kar-Ben    32 pp.
10/25    9798765644249    $19.99
e-book ed.  9798765675540    $9.99

Mouse C.J. (short for Colby Jack) is worried when the Katz family (a family of cats) moves into the apartment he inhabits. After enticing smells bring him from his hole, he encounters young Kitty Katz, who enlists his aid with Hanukkah treats in the kitchen. A couple of false alarms later (“That’s not a mousetrap…It’s a Hanukkah menorah”; “We can’t eat mice…They’re not kosher!”), they all settle in for a holiday meal. Cartoony illustrations provide reassurance from the start that the mouse and Katzes will end up friends.

From the November/December 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Elissa Gershowitz

Elissa Gershowitz is editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc. She holds an MA from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons University and a BA from Oberlin College.

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