The Best Mouse Cookie: The beloved If You Give a Mouse a Cookie character bakes his own treats in a simple, sweet story for early readers

If You Give...

by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illustrator)

Join the mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he bakes his own cookies in his little mouse house. Young readers will enjoy the simple introduction to reading. Each page has one or two sentences. This edition is a paper-over-board hardcover. Starring the ever-popular Mouse, this is a sweet addition to the classic and beloved series.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals, Food, Friendship, Storytime, Humor

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Laura Joffe Numeroff is the NYT best-selling author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, What Mommies/Daddies Do Best and Raising a Hero. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Pratt Institute. Laura grew up as the youngest of three girls, surrounded by art, music, and books. An avid animal lover, Laura has always wanted to write a book about service dogs. She now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

[Rossy]

Cute short story. The illustrations are beautiful, and his "I'm the boss" apron is gorgeous! Besides, one can never have too many cookies, right? It's nice baking for yourself, but sharing something you made and enjoying it with friends, is the best!

[Lata]

Mouse makes their own cookies. The results aren’t always edible, but Mouse does get to share one with a friend eventually.

I loved the “If you give a (creature) a (thing)….”, chaos ensues books. This book isn’t as funny, but it’s still a cute story.

[Rianne Jeffers]

OG book was better

[Annette]

Review by Lucy, age 6, 6/22/19
Lucy's Very First Review!!!

Mom: Who is this book about?
Lucy: A Mouse.
Mom: Have we ever seen this mouse before?
Lucy: Yes, here (McDonalds) in their happy meals. (Mom's note: They gave away tiny copies of "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie" years back.)
Mom: Tell me about this mouse and what he gets up to.
Lucy: Making cookies. He has everything for cookies. Sometimes he gets tired after a little bit. He takes a nap.
Mom: Does this cause problems?
Lucy: Yes. The cookies get over-baked.
Mom: How does the mouse feel?
Lucy: He doesn't mind. He is willing to start over. He makes WAY too many cookies.

Mom: What is your favorite part of this book?
Lucy: If children did this, they would get into trouble. But if they (the mouse and his friend) did it, they wouldn't get into any trouble.
Mom: So you like stories about characters that make messes and do stuff without getting into trouble?
Lucy: Yes, silly trouble.

Mom: Which is your favorite "If you Give a..." book?
Lucy: I don't know, I haven't read all of them.
So far I really like the "If you Give a Cat a Cupcake."

[Reagan Crook]

“There is no such thing as too many cookies.” Amen to that

[Danielle T]

Sometimes we make oopsies, and also the best cookie is shared with a friend. Shorter than the original.

[Chanelle]

The Best Mouse Cookie is a really cute story for developing readers. He makes cookies, rocks out while doing it, and even burns them when he wants to take a nap. I like how it ends by saying that there is nothing wrong with sharing with a friend. You can definitely use this story to teach preschoolers about sharing and being independent. You could tie this book with an activity about sharing.

[Heidi-Marie]

I think my favorite of these books would be the illustrations. Adorable. Simple text well illustrated. And it's nice to know that mouse does some work instead of being given everything. :-)

[Heather]

I think I've read this one a couple hundred times at least. It's a cute and simple story. We used it to sign a lot of cooking signs with this one.

[Jocelin]

Super cute book with our favorite mouse making cookies.

[Mackenzie Guthrie]

(Continued from if you give a mouse a cookie ofc).


~My time has arisen.~


Yes. You 100% need music to make cookies. (Maybe this is bc I definitely still have the pajammy jamin' song stuck in ma brain from Pajama Time!, but dancing is integral to any and all baking).

Look at this lil fancy mouse, being fancy, listening to some tunes, sassily dropping cookies, wearing overalls and an “I’m the boss” apron. What a inspiration.

Yeaaah get a nap lil dude. (just a little nappy guy)

tHERE ARE NO SUCH THING AS TOO MANY COOKIES I FEEL SO VALIDATED IN THIS BOOK YOU GO LIL MOUSE, YOU GO.

(Ignore the human boy giant in the background, we don’t need him).
((I guess if you wanna share…))

[Kristen]

Cute addition to the If you Give a Mouse a Cookie series. This was shorter than desired and did not have the same format as the normal books. That is why I give it 3 stars. It's around what I expected, but I hoped it was a little longer. It is much too short to read as a bed time story to a toddler. But she still enjoyed the mouse and we LOVE cookies in our house. My daughter especially loved the mountain of cookies that Mouse had made at the end of the story.

[Ci]

i'm walking to the kitchen right about now to get my own cookie.

and now that I'm getting cookies, i want some milk to go with it.

and now that i have a snack, i want to get into bed with my book, blanket, and snack.

and now that I'm comfy, i want to have my reading party inside a fort of blankets.

and now that I'm inside my fort, i want to listen to scary stories.

stories reminds me, I'm definitely reading the next book in the "If You Give A..." series.

[Meredith]

The mouse from If You Give a Mouse a CookieIf You Give a Mouse a Cookie bakes cookies.

[Molly]

This gets points for the illustrations and the fact that the little one liked it; but it was very odd- it read as if it had been translated from a different language, maybe more than once, and several pages were misplaced.

[Lucas]

“Can you do 6 stars now? It was funny that he burnt the cookies and threw them in his front yard but he has 10,000 cookies he made! Oliver is his brother but he can also be his friend!”

5000 stars ✨🫪 - written by Lucas

[Mel]

Really cute. I look forward to reading it with my niece and nephew

[Amanda Schwind]

Use to introduce a lesson on cooking or baking cookies!

[Kelly]

Mouse loves baking cookies, but mostly, he loves sharing them with friends.

[Venkatesan]

we need childrens

[Emily Carlyn]

Very simple book, perfect for using with the younger 1-2 crowd.

[Justine]

This is not as good as the original.

[Tammy Corra]

Not sure whether or not to give this one star or five stars. Whenever I read it I want to bake cookies, but when I bake cookies, I eat them all and don’t share any of the best cookies with a friend.

[Christine Grant]

Cookie Story Time. Simple story about mouse making cookies.

[Lee Ann]

This series will forever get 5/5 stars from me.

[Amy]

Read by Nanna

[Liz Lowe]

Cute mouse and cookie book.

[Amanda]

3.5, rounded up

[D.J. and Books Harrington]

Still strong sweet of a book!!♡♡

[Karen]

Short and made out of cardboard. The book is about 2 boys it would have been nice if one was a girl.