KAT & MOUSE

Accommodating BFFs return in Yoon’s kindhearted follow-up to Kat & Mouse: I Like Cheese! (2025).

Mouse and Kat are enjoying solo activities when Kat is struck by inspiration: “Let’s have a SLEEPOVER!” The pals’ personality differences are reflected in their packing choices. Mouse, a pragmatic blue rodent with red glasses, brings “a sleeping bag for sleeping, books for reading…and sheets to build a fort!” Kat, a lavender feline who sports a pink polka-dotted hair bow, embraces a more Dionysian approach: “I will need nachos for snacking, records for dancing…and costumes for playing dress-up!” Excitement runs high for their first sleepover, and the pair’s conflicts—noisy Kat interrupting Mouse’s reading; disagreements over their next activity—are low-stress and highly relatable. The result is an adorable sleepover etiquette guide in which friends quickly and expertly model the art of compromise to fuse their ideas of fun. Thick-lined digital artwork in solid secondary colors with clean backgrounds keeps the focus on the characters, while color-coded speech bubbles (green and bubble-gum pink) with minimal, bold text will suit emerging readers. This gently humorous second entry in the series continues to hit familiar beats for buddy animal stories, with obvious appeal to fans of Norm Feuti’s 2019 Let’s Have a Sleepover.

A good-natured friendship tale sure to encourage flexible thinking.