Mouse Cookies: 10 Easy-To-Make Cookie Recipes with a Story in Pictures (With Cookie Cutter) [Paperback]

Laura Numeroff (Author), Felicia Bond (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 16, 1995 | Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: If You Give...

Ten easy-to-make recipes simple enough for the youngest baker, including peanut butter munches, old-fashioned oatmeal cookies, and jumbo chocolate chip cookies.

While you're waiting for your cookies to come out of the oven, enjoy the brand-new story in pictures -- this time the boy from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie visits the mouse's house!

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-4?Some cookbooks related to children's stories strain for relevance, but this one is a funny, imaginative extension of Numeroff's much-loved If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (HarperCollins, 1985). The story in this spiral-bound book has no words: it is told through Bond's droll, detailed watercolors on the pages facing 10 recipes. It takes place in the mouse's house in the base of a large tree trunk, where he is baking. The boy from the previous book, still wearing the same gold shirt trimmed in green, is peeking through the tiny window and watching the cheerfully messy procedure. The rodent is so weary by the time the first batch is in the oven that he takes a nap and the cookies burn. The rest are fine, though?and before he eats them all himself, he hands one out the window to the boy. Most of these good-old favorite cookies are made from scratch, and the directions are clear. Just the thing for mice and boys and the rest of us.?Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME
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About the Author

Born in 1953, the youngest of three girls, Laura Numeroff grew up in Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by art, music, and books. By age nine, Laura started writing her own stories and drew pictures to go with them -- she would even make a book cover for them and write down the name of the publisher. She also spent a great deal of time reading and took weekly trips to the public library -- which was about five blocks from her house. At that time, her favorite possessions were her microscope, a box of sixty-four crayons, and her library card.

At age fifteen, Laura decided to follow in her sister's footsteps and become a fashion designer. However, during her last semester in college, Laura decided to take a class in writing and illustrating books for children. She ended up graduating with a degree and a publishing contract for her first book! She has been writing now for 27 years and has written 16 books for children. Her best-selling If You Give a ... series has received critical acclaim and has become a favorite for children of all ages. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Paperback: 26 pages
• Publisher: HarperFestival; Spi edition (November 16, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0694006335
• ISBN-13: 978-0694006335
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,466,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fun Favorite!, March 24, 2000

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This review is from: Mouse Cookies: 10 Easy-To-Make Cookie Recipes with a Story in Pictures (With Cookie Cutter) (Paperback)

The set was given to us as a gift a few years ago and our kids have enjoyed it so much that we have worn out a couple of the pages! With favorite recipes like M&M cookies included in this book, be sure to keep it on hand for easy access. The mouse cookie cutter is cute but even cuter is the little story done in pictures throughout the book and it's recipes. Kids will revisit the mouse and the boy from the original "If you give a mouse a cookie" book, in another story about baking cookies. This will grow to be a favorite book, not just a recipe book...we "read" it for our bedtime story tons of times!