"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" is based on the "If You Give..." series of children's books written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond. For the series, the artists wanted to stay as true as possible to the look of the books when creating the characters and backgrounds for animation.
Each 22-minute episode is made up of two 11-minute stories. Both segments use the same object to launch the stories. In "Recycle Races" and "Change is Good" the object is a plastic bottle.
Safety first! Mouse and friends always make sure to wear their life jackets when they're headed for water.
Although Mouse gets to ride with a surfer in episode 106's "Beach Day," episode 114 is the first time we get to see Mouse surf all on his own! He's a very talented Mouse.
Although we've seen the town park many times before, episode 114 is the first time we see the pond. The weeping willows are in keeping with the characteristics of water features in parks in the northeastern part of America.