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Mouse has everything he needs to make cookies. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Board book
Chances are that when you run into a tough situation, you may recall the little engine that could and start chanting to yourself, "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can." until you feel confident. Your parents probably told you that story based on a board book before you were old enough to have a "real" hard or soft cover book.
The Best Mouse Cookie is a board book in that tradition, and a book that I highly recommend for your youngsters (be they your children, nieces and nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews, grandchildren, or beyond). If you have ever enjoyed the Laura Numeroff/Felicia Bond classic, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, you'll be delighted to know that The Best Mouse Cookie is based on the same two characters, the boy and the mouse. The story is quite different so don't expect a variation on the theme of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
The Best Mouse Cookie has many good lessons about friendship, sharing, paying attention to details, overcoming setbacks, and looking at new activities as fun challenges. Any child who loves chocolate chip cookies and doesn't like to share will find this book to be custom built for helping to adjust that selfishness.
As the book opens, the boy is staring into a window of the little mouse house in the base of a big tree. Inside the window, the boy sees the mouse wearing a chef's hat and over-sized apron and admiring himself in the reflection from a toaster while a bag of groceries and backpack sit below. "Mouse has everything he needs to make cookies." On this page, mouse has piled all the ingredients precariously on one another atop a stool.
The mouse has a box of recipes and a boom box and sings his head off while putting the ingredients together. "He adds flour, salt, and a little music."
The mouse becomes overconfident until he begins to have trouble neatly breaking eggs.
Finally, the cookies are assembled in the oven and the mouse is tired. Stretching out for a little snooze, the cookies burn!
Mouse awakes, tosses out the burned cookies, and starts all over without regret.
Mouse then makes a huge pyramid of cookies that will bring screams of delight from any youngster who sees the illustration.
The book ends with this lesson: "There's no such thing as too many cookies . . . but the best cookie in the one you share with a friend." In the illustration, mouse reaches outside of his window to hand a cookie to the boy who smilingly accepts the gift.
Now, isn't that a nice story to read before bed?
Like most board books, your child will soon be "telling" you the story . . . long before she or he can actually "read" the words.
I thought that the illustrations were among the best that I've seen Felicia Bond do.
Very nice!
The Best Mouse Cookie is a board book in that tradition, and a book that I highly recommend for your youngsters (be they your children, nieces and nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews, grandchildren, or beyond). If you have ever enjoyed the Laura Numeroff/Felicia Bond classic, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, you'll be delighted to know that The Best Mouse Cookie is based on the same two characters, the boy and the mouse. The story is quite different so don't expect a variation on the theme of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
The Best Mouse Cookie has many good lessons about friendship, sharing, paying attention to details, overcoming setbacks, and looking at new activities as fun challenges. Any child who loves chocolate chip cookies and doesn't like to share will find this book to be custom built for helping to adjust that selfishness.
As the book opens, the boy is staring into a window of the little mouse house in the base of a big tree. Inside the window, the boy sees the mouse wearing a chef's hat and over-sized apron and admiring himself in the reflection from a toaster while a bag of groceries and backpack sit below. "Mouse has everything he needs to make cookies." On this page, mouse has piled all the ingredients precariously on one another atop a stool.
The mouse has a box of recipes and a boom box and sings his head off while putting the ingredients together. "He adds flour, salt, and a little music."
The mouse becomes overconfident until he begins to have trouble neatly breaking eggs.
Finally, the cookies are assembled in the oven and the mouse is tired. Stretching out for a little snooze, the cookies burn!
Mouse awakes, tosses out the burned cookies, and starts all over without regret.
Mouse then makes a huge pyramid of cookies that will bring screams of delight from any youngster who sees the illustration.
The book ends with this lesson: "There's no such thing as too many cookies . . . but the best cookie in the one you share with a friend." In the illustration, mouse reaches outside of his window to hand a cookie to the boy who smilingly accepts the gift.
Now, isn't that a nice story to read before bed?
Like most board books, your child will soon be "telling" you the story . . . long before she or he can actually "read" the words.
I thought that the illustrations were among the best that I've seen Felicia Bond do.
Very nice!
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
not as fun as other Numeroff-Bond collaborations
27 Sep 2001
Format:Board book|Amazon Verified Purchase
Do not buy this book expecting the same hilarious adventures of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". The same little rodent is featured, and the illustrations are excellent, but the action almost exclusively concerns the mouse's solitary baking. It is a short board book meant for the younger crowd and is entertaining, but it is strangely disjointed, particularly when one considers the fluid antics of the earlier books -- a fine introduction to the Numeroff-Bond books, but this one will not have the same staying power.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Colorful book that will get your baby's attention & keep it!
17 Jun 2000
Format:Board book
After picking up several other books by Laura Numeroff for my older son this was a natural choice for my 8 month old. She makes easy to read stories that kids just love! My little guy loves to look at the colorful pictures and actually listens to the words when we read together! It is simple enough that even my 5 year old can read it to his younger brother and he loves the book just as much! A great first book choice for baby!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Good - but not the same style of "If you give a mouse..."
28 May 2001
Format:Board book
If you're looking for another book like "If you give a Moose a Muffin" or "If you give a mouse a cookie" - you should know that this book is NOT written in that same style at all. There are no hilarious antics for what the mouse asks for or is reminded of next. This book was written for babies and young children, so the text is much simpler (but still clever). The illustrations are great and just what you'd expect if you've read her other popular books. This book is a wonderful way to introduce a baby or toddler to Laura's well-written series of books.
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