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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...) (Hardcover)
by Laura Joffe Numeroff
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General, Ages 4-8, Children's book |
| Market price: ¥ 178.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
It is a delightful tale with cause and effect being demonstrated to full effect. |
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Author: Laura Joffe Numeroff
Publisher: Laura Geringer
Pub. in: June, 1985
ISBN: 0060245867
Pages: 32
Measurements: 9.3 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00028
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Who would ever suspect that a tiny little mouse could wear out an energetic young boy? Well, if you're going to go around giving an exuberantly bossy rodent a cookie, you'd best be prepared to do one or two more favors for it before your day is through. For example, he'll certainly need a glass of milk to wash down that cookie, won't he? And you can't expect him to drink the milk without a straw, can you? By the time our hero is finished granting all the mouse's very urgent requests-and cleaning up after him-it's no wonder his head is becoming a bit heavy. Laura Joffe Numeroff's tale of warped logic is a sure-fire winner in the giggle-generator category. But concerned parents can rest assured, there's even a little education thrown in for good measure: underneath the folly rest valuable lessons about cause and effect. Felicia Bond's hilarious pictures are full of subtle, fun details. Fans will be happy to know that this dynamic author-illustrator pair teamed up again for If You Give a Moose a Muffin and If You Give a Pig a Pancake.
Target readers:
Kids aged 3-8
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Laura Numeroff is the author of many books for young readers in addition to the If You Give... series, including The Chicken Sisters and Laura Numeroff's 10-Step Guide to Living with Your Monster. She lives in Los Angeles, CA where she loves to ride horses, read biographies, and play with her pets. A portion of her royalties will be donated to First Book, a national nonprofit organization that promotes children’s literacy.
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If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim....
The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but young readers will come away smiling at the antics that tumble like dominoes through the pages of this delightful picture book.
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Dale A (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
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!
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E. R. Bird (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
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 kiddy 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. 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 (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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Christopher Dudley (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
On the surface this book appears to be a cute tale of cause and effect that results from giving a mouse a cookie. Although this appeals to children, it is merely a metaphor for the real point of the book. Though the boy gives and gives of himself, the mouse is never satisfied, and continues to demand more and more of the boy. Clearly this illustrates the writer's view of the inherent problems in a capitalist economy.
Through this allegory, the book tells of the plight of the common man. Here we see the working class (as represented by the boy) stooping and fetching for the much smaller privileged upper class (the mouse). Though the mouse appears to be helpful by cleaning the whole house, this simply illustrates the charade of the class system. The tools the rich use to clean are provided by the exploitation of the poor workers. The upper class demands that the workers attend their needs for little or no pay while the rich "clean up." Throughout it all, the working class maintains its servile attitude, hoping to reap some reward for its efforts, but the end of the book demonstrates that this is an illusion; the cycle inevitably repeats itself.
Children enjoy this book because the cause and effect relationship of the events is easily memorized and predictable. Just like the never-ending class struggle, as the author astutely points out.
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Britt Arnhild Lindland (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-25 00:00>
.....you will have hours of fun ahead of you.
My favorite time of the day is when I take my kids to bed and read for them. We read different kinds of books, but each child always gets some special favorites. If you give a Mouse a Cookie is among 5 year old Marta's all time favorites. We can read the book over and over again, and the story is just as cute as when we first discovered it.
The story starts with a little boy eating cookies outside his house; he sees a mouse and wants to share his cookies with it. The mouse eats the cookie, and then asks for a glass of milk, of course the boy gives him some milk, and the story goes on and on. The little mouse asks for more and more, the boy has a wonderful time following his new companion, from a napkin, to scissors to trim his hair, a broom to sweep up, and so on. And the wonderful, funny last page when the mouse asks for a glass of milk, but of course, if you give him a glass of milk the chances are that he will want a cookie to go with it, and we are right back to the start of the book. The most perfect story for a child who always wants repetitions, over and over again.
The book is beautifully written by Laure Joffe Numeroff, and the cute drawings to illustrate the story are made by Felicia Bond.
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