Roberto is excited about the paper mouse he made in school, until Amy asks, "Does it do anything?" Roberto isn't sure, so he leaves the mouse on his window sill and goes to bed. Before long his apartment building is quiet, but Roberto can't fall asleep. So he gets up to look out the window and sees Archie's cat being chased by a big, snarling dog! Roberto doesn't know what to do, but fate steps in and an unlikely hero comes to the cat's rescue. "The artist's skillful use of a combination of acrylic painting and collage has never been more effectively employed than in this quiet tale."
小男孩在黃昏時在窗邊玩紙老鼠，夜深了，除了小男孩以外，孩子們紛紛入夢。紙老鼠靜靜坐在窗臺上，和小男孩看著暗夜街景，鄰家的貓，與橫行而來的野狗，狹路相逢，小男孩擔心貓咪，卻手足無措...，忽然，一陣風吹過，紙老鼠被吹落，然后，意想不到的畫面發生，化解了貓狗一觸即發的沖突，是真實呢?還是夢...無限大的力量？

Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) is the beloved author of more than eighty-five books for children. He was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1963 for The Snowy Day and received a Caldecott Honor in 1970 for Goggles. His classic books include Whistle for Willie, A Letter to Amy, Peter's Chair, and many others.
Ezra Jack Keats獲獎作品非常多，《彼得的口哨》、《彼得的椅子》、《下雪天》