If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Who would suspect that a tiny little mouse could wear out an energetic young boy? Well, if you’re going to go around giving an exuberantly bossy rodent a cookie, be prepared to do one or two more favors for it before your day is through. He’ll certainly need a glass of milk to wash down that cookie, won’t he? And you can’t expect him to drink the milk without a straw, can you? By the time you are finished granting all the mouse’s very urgent requests — and cleaning up after him — it’s no wonder your head is becoming a bit heavy. Laura Numeroff’s tale of circular logic is a sure-fire winner in the giggle-generator category. But underneath the folly rest valuable lessons about life.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is adapted by Jody Davidson from the book by Laura Numeroff.