Books with author Laura Numeroff

Mouse is back for the holidays! A first sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, starring Mouse! The famous little mouse from the children's classic If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is back in another irresistible tale full of holiday antics. This time, if you take him to the movies, he'll ask you for some popcorn. If you give him the popcorn, he'll want to string it all together. Then he'll want to hang it on a Christmas tree. In the fourth in this mega–selling series, Felicia Bond and Laura Numeroff have created another high–energy story featuring the adorable and demanding mouse that has delighted millions of readers.

Dogs don’t wear sneakers, pigs don’t wear hats, and dresses look silly on Siamese cats.Animals would look pretty silly doing a lot of the things that people do all the time. The unlikely combinations in Laura Numeroff’s cheerful rhymes and Joe Mathieu’s bright, zany pictures will make you laugh out loud. What sort of crazy creatures can you dream up?

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake Enthusiastic games of pretend ensue when this cat gets a cupcake. Sprinkles on the frosting remind him of sand and have him putting on his bathing suit to build sand castles. One thing leads to another as it always does, and he wants to head to the amusement park, the natural history museum, and finally back to the kitchen for another cupcake! If You Give a Moose a Muffin Lured by the yummy smell of freshly baked muffins, this moose is ready to leave the forest and come inside. But if he does, he's going to make a colossal mess creating sock puppets, painting scenery on cardboard, and getting ready for a show...if he can resist another muffin. If You Take a Mouse to the Movies A little popcorn is all it takes to put this mouse in the Christmas spirit. Eager for nonstop activity, he wants to string garlands for the tree, make a snowman, go caroling, and decorate homemade ornaments. When he's finally so exhausted that he can't do one more thing, he heads back to the movies-and has a little popcorn, of course. If You Give A Dog A Donut A snack of donuts and juice inspires this dog to head outside with his favorite friend to pick apples. Apple-tossing reminds him of baseball-throwing, home runs turn into treasure hunts, and as one thing leads to another, he gets thirsty for juice and hungry for donuts! With effortless delight, these two friends romp from one imaginative game to another, letting inspiration take them on an unforgettable backyard journey. The satisfaction of the conclusion, of course, is that one bite of a donut may set off another cascade of fun together.

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 Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.