Inscribed with a small drawing of a mouse head:
"To Patrick! -- Jeff Smith"
From the back cover:
There is a lot to do before Little Mouse is ready to go visit the barn. Will he master all the intricacies of getting dressed, from snaps and buttons to Velcro and tail holes? Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Smith and his determined Little Mouse charmingly animate all the smallest pleasures of this daily task.