Children's chapter book set in the desert. Main character is a kangaroo mouse. Read around 1988.

[Amy]

I read this book around 1988. It is a children's chapter book set in the desert. The main character is a kangaroo mouse. He/She comes out at night.
Remember it being such a lovely story....

[Rainbowheart]

K Mouse and Bo Bixby?

[bookel]

K Mouse and Bo Bixby.
https://www.librarything.com/work/418...
Author: Nan Hayden Agle; Harold Berson
Publisher: New York, Seabury Press [1972]
Edition/Format: Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Kangaroo Mouse's peaceful existence is disrupted when a human family decides to build a house on his territory.