Coming back from the dead to let you all know that
this book is being reprinted in the spring from NYR Children's Collection.
Need a House? Call Ms. Mouse! by George Mendoza, illustrated by Doris Susan Smith, was originally published in 1981 by Penguin and is one I have periodically looked out for, ever since reading about it in ye olden blog times
here and a few years later it started popping up everywhere else, like
here and
here. Already preordered!