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Title: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0-06-024586-7 Publisher: Laura Geringer Pub. Date: 30 June, 1985 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (76 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic children's picture book
Comment: Laura J. Numeroff's picture book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, illustrated by Felicia Bond, is a classic for children. The book tells the story of a young boy's encounter with a demanding little mouse. When he gives the mouse a cookie, he unknowingly sets the mouse off into a tirade of requests. Each demand is directly followed by another more curious demand. The mouse asks for a pair of scissors for trimming his hair, to be read a story, to put a picture on the refrigerator door and many other odd things. Eventually, the story comes full circle. The mouse, thirsty from all the activity, asks for a glass of milk and you can imagine what might follow! If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is an excellent picture book for young children. The plot is very appealing to a young audience. It explores the world of "what if's" and presents experiences familiar to its intended readers such as being read a story and drawing a picture. It encourages its audience to make predictions about what the mouse might demand next. Not only is the plot appealing to children, but the illustrators are as well. The illustrations correspond beautifully to the plot and aid in developing the characters. Although the mouse and the boy are not described within the text, we learn a great deal about them through their pictorial depictions. The illustrations create for the reader a sense that hte mouse and the boy are both very friendly and warm, even if one of them may be somewhat demanding! The plot of the story is also complemented by the illustrations. Within the text, we are not explicitly told how the boy is reacting to all these requests, but we see in the pictures the exasperation and fatigue he is experiencing. The illustrations also enhance the mood of the story. The tale is very lively and fun and so too are the pictures provided by Bond. The colors utilized are bright and inviting and the lines are realistic, yet free. Numeroff's style and language are a perfect match for the children's interests and age levels. She utilizes a good deal of repetition which young children tend to enjoy in a story. Additionally, her vocabulary is consistent with that of three to seven-year olds. Sentences are not too difficult, but do go beyond entirely simplistic construction providing children with language development opportunities. Overall, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Numeroff is a very worthwhile child's picture book. It provides opportunities for children to improve their language development. Additionally, it encourages children to explore possibilities and make predictions. However, it is most importantly an extremely fun and humorous book for a parent and child to share.
Rating: 5
Summary: Just add a few cookies, and you've got the perfect gift!
Comment: We've finally grown out of this book at our house - but it took a long time. My soon-to-be 9 year old will occasionally (in secret)read this book now, but from age 3 to 6, it was a bed time favorite!
The story is funny, as are the illustrations of the little mouse, making a mess and asking for more things - and it all started by just giving the little fellow a cookie.
The hardcover book alone is a great gift item, but it's better yet as a mini book with the cute little stuffed mouse. If you add a small package of chocolate chip cookies, this would make an exceptional gift. Or, if not cookies, a crayon set with some paper is ideal (you have to read the story to understand why!)
For kids who want to read and listen, the audio tape will be listened to again and again. This is also one of those books that adults enjoy reading to their children!
Rating: 5
Summary: Cookie cookie cookie starts with C
Comment: "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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Title: If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0060244054 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0060266864 Publisher: Laura Geringer Pub. Date: 31 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0060283289 Publisher: Laura Geringer Pub. Date: 16 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond ISBN: 0060278676 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book by Eric Carle ISBN: 0399226907 Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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