"Six generations of female mice celebrate Mother's Mother's Day in a gifty, hand-sized volume. Hazel brings a bunch of violets to her mother, who is not home because she is delivering a gift to her own mother, also not at home. This continues until Great-Great-Grandmother finds an unfriendly cat instead of her own mother, sending all the mice scurrying into hiding together. Balian's delicate, cozy illustrations ably capture the characters' emotions." –Publishers Weekly

"Hazel the mouse goes to visit her mother, who is out visiting "her" mother, who is out visiting "her" mother, and so on until the last mouse encounters a menacing cat and all flee, meeting up with one another along the way. Delicate line drawings of Potteresque mice and woodland flora decorate this slight story, here reissued in a small, square gift edition." –Horn Book Guide