If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

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. Students learn about cause-effect relationships during a shared reading of the book and then complete a cloze exercise that uses context and initial consonant clues. Felicia Bond's hilarious pictures are full of subtle, fun details. This lesson uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine word-skill work with prediction and sequencing practice. 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.

Laura Joffe Numeroff's tale of warped logic is a sure-fire winner in the giggle-generator category.

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. So hell probably ask for a pair of nail scissors. I had a dream that the book could make a funny, and cute animated series. 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. When he looks in the mirror, he might notice his hair needs a trim. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: Amazon Prime Video Laura Numeroff In 1985, after nine rejections, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie was finally published.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff