"Do you want to be my friend?" asks the little mouse, and hopefully follows a tail, finding at the end of it a rather unfriendly horse. But there's another tail, and another, and a strange, long, green one, too, that follows the mouse on his quest for a friend.

Each page of this ingenious picture book contains a surprise. Its only text is on the first page, but the exciting pursuit of a friend for the little mouse lends itself to improvisation by both the reader and the young child—another brilliant idea from Eric Carle, the creator of THE SECRET BIRTHDAY MESSAGE and THE MIXED UP CHAMELEON. 

From the dust jacket of an early HarperCollins edition