This Hardcover Book item from HarperFestival was reviewed on 16-Oct-2008.
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1) Hardcover Book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Mini Ornament) by HarperFestival. This is a great story. My kids love this book to be read to them at bedtime.
It make a great gift. The pictures will make you smile.¤ 2) Hardcover Book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Mini Ornament) by HarperFestival. The book was too small. I wanted the regular size book which I had to go to a local retailer to get one due to its out-of-date production that Amazon does not carry. They should because this is a classic children´s book.¤ 3) Hardcover Book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Mini Ornament) by HarperFestival. This is the first offering of a wonderfully delightful series of like stories for children. If You Give a Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond tell the story, and the problems you might run into, if you should happen to give a overly active and demanding mouse a cookie. The story begins with a young boy innocently setting by his sidewalk in front of his house. A hungry mouse comes along and the problems begin.
This is a progressive type of tale, where one act of generosity keeps growing and growing. "If you give a mouse a cookie, he´s going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give him milk, he´ll probably ask you for a straw. When you give him a straw, he will ask........." And it goes on and on and on until the poor kid pretty well has a completely trashed house and is exhausted trying to fulfill the escalating requests and the subsequent mess the requests ultimately cause. A pushy mouse and cookies, we find, are not a good combination!
The text is delightfully simple and keeps you turning the pages, page after page. You actually find you self wanting to see what the little rodent is going to ask for next. The story is simple and there is no bang, bang, crash crunch plot nor ending. The only problem I find in this aspect is that in this day and age, I find some children (and even more adults), who have the attention span of ferrets on coffee and if the story is in the least bit mellow, their minds simply cannot track. This is a minor problem though, if it is indeed a problem.
The art work by Felicia Bond is quite well done and goes perfectly with the text. The pictures are simple to understand, cute and quite eye catching. I liked them.
This is one of in a series of books by this team. Others include If you give a Moose a Muffin, If you give a Pig a Pancake, If you take a Mouse to the Movies, If you take a Mouse to School and If you give a Pig a Party. All are as well done. I have noted in reading this book and others in the series that the kids love them and will always ask for repeat readings.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
¤ 4) Hardcover Book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Mini Ornament) by HarperFestival. If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
By Laura Joffe Numeroff
Illustrated by Felicia Bond
"If you give a mouse a cookie, he´s going to ask for a glass of milk."
One thing leads to another in this cute picture book. When you get finished with all of the mouse´s requests, he may just want another glass of milk. And we all know what goes well with milk.
Jill Ammon Vanderwood
Author: Through the Rug
[ASIN:0979845548 Through The Rug: Follow That Dog (Through the Rug)]]
¤ 5) Hardcover Book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Mini Ornament) by HarperFestival. I really wanted this book to catch on with my two sons during our bedtime reading. I liked the concept of showing that one action creates another and another. However, the book didn´t work and here´s why:
1. The narrator doesn´t have a voice. Put this against "Green Eggs and Ham" where you´ve got two distinct voices playing off each other or "Monster at the End of this Book" where Grover´s voice goes from whisper to yelling and finally back down to a whimper. This book doesn´t help bedtime readers. I might as well have read a motorcycle manual.
2. The story wears on you just as the mouse wears on the boy. I thought it was telling that near the end of the book, the boy in the story falls asleep in a rocking chair. The actions didn´t get sillier or funnier or more intesting; there was just one right after another.
3. What the mouse does beyond eating a cookie isn´t neither creative nor interesting. For a small character in a big world, choose instead the classic "Jack in the Beanstalk" or a mouse with character, "Stuart Little."
In summary, I give it 2 out of 5 stars. This might make a good early reader book but forget about adding it to your bedtime reading collection.¤ 6) Hardcover Book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Mini Ornament) by HarperFestival. The best-selling picture book is in a miniature hardcover edition accompanied by a soft, adorable mouse doll. Standing seven inches tall, this irresistible mouse features movable arms and legs, removable denim overalls, and polka-dot boxer shorts. He even comes complete with a detachable chocolate-chip cookie, but watch out´if you give it to a mouse . . . ¤ 7) Hardcover Book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Mini Ornament) by HarperFestival. "If you give a mouse a cookie..." you´ll never be able to resist any future requests, especially if he´s as cute as the diminutive plush ornament included with this special miniature edition of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Decked out in removable red overalls with a detachable Santa hat and candy-cane-covered boxer shorts, the life-sized mouse holds a big (for him), detachable chocolate chip cookie in his paw. The tiny hardcover book is just the right size for small human hands, and loses none of its appeal in miniature. What a perfect holiday gift for devotees of Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond´s delightfully silly If You... series! And while you´re celebrating the holidays, don´t miss their popular Christmas title, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 13-Nov-2008, 06940153189780694015313, 540-200-620-070-180-QGB-8 
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