Mice in tiny knitted hats. A sled already partway down the run. Skaters carving loops across the ice while the letters of the title sit under their own drifts of snow. This square board book hands the youngest readers a whole season at mouse scale, and every flake of it is torn from paper.

Leo Lionni's Friends is the board book series behind it, inspired by the bestselling books of legendary author and illustrator Leo Lionni, and the collage style artwork here is rendered by illustrator Jan Gerardi, who cuts the snow out of paper and leaves the gray mice as expressive as Lionni drew them. Sturdy pages, sized for mittened seasons and small hands.

The publisher calls it a great gift for winter reading, and it earns the label: tuck it into a stocking, a snow day basket, or the bag for grandma's house. For ages 0 to 3, with its siblings A Little Book About Spring and A Little Book About Food waiting for the thaw.