Everyone loves Willy the wind-up mouse, while Alexander the real mouse is chased away with brooms and mousetraps. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be loved and cuddled, thinks Alexander, and he wishes he could be a wind-up mouse too. In this gentle fable about a real mouse and a mechanical mouse, Leo Lionni explores the magic of friendship. Available only in paperback for the past seven years, this treasured Caldecott Honor Book now returns in a hardcover gift editiion sure to enchant a whole new generation of readers.