If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

Picture Book
Title: If You Give A  Mouse A Cookie
Author: Laura Joffe Numeroff
Illustrator: Felicia Bond
Age Level: 3-7
Rating: 4 out of 5

Summary
This book is about the dominoes effect that happens when you let a mouse into your house.  When you give him a cookie he will ask for some milk, and if you give him milk he will want to look in the mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and the story goes on and on in this manner.

Opinion
When I think back to my childhood and the reading that I enjoyed to do, reading, If You Give A  Mouse A Cookie, is one of the books that I remember most vividly.  I would  read this book over and over again because I was so intrigued by all the things that the mouse wanted to do.  I think the cartoon like illustrations are extremely playful and inviting for the reader.  The layout of the story is also done in a way that keeps the reader on his/her toes and hightens the anticipation that they have to find out what comes next. It also helps that the title and front cover have cookies on them, we all know that children love cookies so this makes the book even more appealing for them to read.  I think that students can also use their five senses while reading this book which is an activity and lesson that is extremely important.

I would definitly keep this book in my class library because I think that all students will enjoy reading it.  I do not think I would use this book in a particular lesson but having it available to students would be my main focus.

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