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Summary: Mom's favorite
Review: This book is great for smaller children. The subject matter/storyline is easy to follow for a 3 year old. There is just the right amount of words on each page that my son does not get distracted, and he can even finish the sentences because I've read this book so much. It's my favorite children's book in our house, and it's really cute to see my son check in the mirror to see if he has a milk moustache.
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Summary: An All-time Favorite!
Review: This was one of my children's favorite books....I kept it (they're teenagers now). I read it to classes on ReadAloud Day in our school. No matter what grade, it's always enjoyed. The predictability of the story lends itself to group participation, and that adorable little mouse is absolutely irresistible!
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Summary: This Book Never Gets Old
Review: I'm 14. I read this book in like preschool or something, just like everyone else. I love this book! It's so funny, cute, and easy to read. The illustrations are absolutely beautiful. I read this book when I want to feel like I'm 5 again.
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Summary: So clever - and so rich with logical consequences!
Review: One of my all time favorites! (and I'm the Mom). We have read this book, and it's successor, If You Give A Moose A Muffin, so many times, I pretty much know them by heart. In fact, my son and I still enjoy playing a game of remembering what happens next in the car or sometimes if we are waiting in line, etc. It makes a great memory and logical thinking exercise. We have to think of the logical consequence in order to get to the next step. I would reommend this book as a gift to any child from birth to ? (we're still enjoying it at 6 years old)
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Summary: A wonderful book for small children.
Review: Our two year old loves it. This book has an interesting concept and good illustrations
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Summary: this is a good book
Review: This story is great for sequencing a potential chain of events.
The child gives the mouse a cookie- then he will want milk, then a napkin, and so on- the boy realizes that maybe gving the mouse a cookies wouldn't be such a good idea.
Great book, the children love it! Especially after having cookies and milk for snack!
Ellen
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Summary: Favorite of both my boys
Review: "Cookie" is my almost 3 year old's favorite book. He can almost recite it to me after reading it so many times. My almost 6 year old still loves it too. A great book that will be a favorite for many years!
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Summary: do you have a cookie?
Review: This book, written by Laura Joffe Numeroff, is a story about a greedy little mouse and a very generous young boy. When the polite young boy offers a cute little mouse a cookie, it naturally asks for a glass of milk to go with it, and then he takes the boy on a ride for all he's worth. The mouse wants milk, a straw, scissors, a place to sleep crayons and many other things. The young boy, trying to be a good host, grants all of the mouse's requests, and just when he thinks the mouse is finished, he asks for a glass of milk. Oh no... here we go again.
With its graphic and colorful illustrations from Felicia Bond, this book was, and still is an instant hit. Written in 1985 "If you give a mouse a cookie" became a favorite among children of all ages. Every page contains illustrations which are brightly colored and keep the reader interested. Even the end pages are a bright blue color and invite the reader in and welcome them to enjoy the book. The text is simple and the story is easy to follow. The only problem is, the story leaves you kind of hungry. By the way.... do you have a cookie?
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Summary: Cookie cookie cookie starts with C
Review: "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" really has been the "It" book for some time. Parents love this story, and their children really get into it as well. On and off, I'd heard various things about it, but nothing that so sparked my interest that I ran to my nearest library to peruse its pages. Now, however, I've grown old and wise in the ways of kiddie lit. and I found myself wanting to know what all the fuss was about. Was this book really as overwhelmingly fantastic as everyone said? Was I doomed to fall desperately in love with it like 98% of the population of known Western Civilization? The answer is a resounding yes yes yes. I had counted on finding some mild enjoyment with a fun story. Was I got was extreme enjoyment from a sly, understated, exceedingly clever story.As we open, a small mouse treks down a hill on its own as a boy contentedly reads his comic book, munching on a bag of delicious chocolate chip cookies. After the boy offers the mouse a cookie (not knowing what such an action has wrought) the mouse asks for milk. Milk leads to a napkin. A napkin leads to a mirror (to check for a milk mustache, of course). A mirror leads to a hasty haircut. A haircut leads to sweeping up. And so on. All the while the boy gamely follows his rodent friend over, around, and through the different parts of the house, ever supplying the guest with whatsoever it may require. By the end, the house is in shambles, the boy exhausted on the floor (parents will relish this picture above all) and the mouse has just started in on a second cookie. Some books expertly place kids in the position of their parents. In the picture book, "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus", kids are allowed to finally tell someone (the someone in that instance being a naughty pigeon) no. In this book, the kids are now the patient parents, forever cleaning up and amusing the endlessly enthusiastic and hepped-up mousey. The pictures are deceptively simple, drawn with pure pen and ink. Just the same, millions of tiny details are apparent in every shot. The boy's refrigerator displays (oddly) a newspaper clipping of a car crash. The mouse's drawing of his family displays some pretty original dresses on his mother and sister. And I'll leave up to your imagination the variety of odds n' ends surrounding the depleted boy at the end of the story. Suffice to say, ladies and gentlemen, this book has it all. And it's a delightful story to boot.
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Summary: I know this book by heart now...
Review: My seventeen-month old son will search through his vast library to find this book (and the others in this series), protesting when I try to compromise with another selection. He loves the story, knows when to turn the page (which is no longer necessary, as I can recite them all from memory) and will accept no subsitute. I even tried burying the books away so that I could read something new to him, but he dug them out, carried them down the stairs and insisted I drop everything to recall what are apparently his favorite stories.
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