Snowy Day/If You Give a Mouse a Christmas Cookie (2016) – Rewatch

I pair these two because I’ve watched them together every year since they first appeared on Prime. They are both delightful adaptations of well-known children’s picture books. While they are both enjoyable, I love Snowy Day more. It perfectly encapsulates Ezra Keats’s beautiful illustrations and urban setting with an excellent voice cast that includes Regina King, Angela Bassett, and Laurence Fishburne. As a bonus, it contains a new Boyz II Men song that serves as a soundtrack through the entire short. If You Give a Mouse a Christmas Cookie focuses solely on the animal characters, really stretching the story of them trying to fix the school holiday pageant that they almost ruined. It’s a cute and inoffensive diversion that also captures its book inspiration well.