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If You Take a Mouse Five-Book Set
If You Take a Mouse Five-Book Set (If You Take a Mouse to the Movies; If You Take a Mouse to School; If You Give a Moose a Muffin; If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; If You Give a Pig a Pancake)
For a limited time get all five of Laura Numeroff's If You Take Mouse books in one easy-to-order package, including the one that started all, If You Give a Pig a Pancake.
For a limited time get all five of Laura Numeroff's If You Take Mouse books in one easy-to-order package, including the one that started all, If You Give a Pig a Pancake.
Hardcover
First published October 7, 2003
About the author
Laura Joffe Numeroff
106 books1,024 followersLaura 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.
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March 21, 2014
"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" is a book written about a little mouse that was given a cookie. The story goes on with all the other things that the mouse might ask for after you give it a cookie. For instance, if you gave it a cookie, it will ask for a glass of milk. Then he will ask for a straw for the milk. After that, he will ask to look in the mirror to see if he has a milk mustache, and the story goes on.
The main character in this story is the mouse, who likes to eat cookies and make sure he looks nice. The boy who gives him the cookie is pictured but is never really mentioned.
The story takes place in some boy's house by the look of the front cover and all the pictures inside. I think it is in modern times because of all the things that the boy gets out of his cupboards.
The main theme in this book is being kind, because the boy had to be kind enough to bring the mouse inside his house and treat him to a cookie and a nice glass of milk.
I thought "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" was a very short and easy book to read. I would recommend it to a person who wants to read a short book that is interesting.
The main character in this story is the mouse, who likes to eat cookies and make sure he looks nice. The boy who gives him the cookie is pictured but is never really mentioned.
The story takes place in some boy's house by the look of the front cover and all the pictures inside. I think it is in modern times because of all the things that the boy gets out of his cupboards.
The main theme in this book is being kind, because the boy had to be kind enough to bring the mouse inside his house and treat him to a cookie and a nice glass of milk.
I thought "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" was a very short and easy book to read. I would recommend it to a person who wants to read a short book that is interesting.
November 1, 2018
This is a funny and nice book about taking a mouse to school and how he will want to do more and more. It is nicely illustrated and has good detail about the mouse and what it will want to do.
December 6, 2019
Good book for cause and effect.
April 5, 2020
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May 9, 2020
This book is going to be fun
May 26, 2025
one of my childhood favorites 🥹💗
one of my forever favorites 🥲💞
one of my forever favorites 🥲💞
October 2, 2009
This is a great series. The one I want to focus on is if you give a mouse a muffin. It follows a pattern and teaches kids sequence of events. I would use it for sequence, and place it in a unit about animals. I like the book because it is cute and will keep the kids attention. It starts out saying if you give a mouse a muffin, and goes to the next thing he will ask for.
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September 27, 2012Great series for Kindergarten involving different animals in different situations. The stories are very creative, and the children loved them. Great way to introduce ways of creative writing and allowing children to come up with ideas on their own after reading all 5 stories. Teacher can introduce a writing topic for the day "If you give a rat a..." and so on.
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May 4, 2009I love these book sets! They are great to use for teaching cause and effect to children. To promote good writing to children, this would be a great read aloud lesson and have them write their own If- Then (cause- effect) book.
January 21, 2008
Great series. I wish I thought of that first!
January 29, 2008
These are some of my favorite kid books. We read them all the time. It's all about being silly, but also about having a predictable ending and the girls love that.
May 1, 2008
These make me laugh. Cute books.
May 7, 2008
They are all so cute! They have their own little ingredient added to it.
May 12, 2008
I liked the original book, but some of the others bug me. Some of the sequence is a bit of a stretch and don't make sense to me. The kids really like them though.
July 23, 2008
Great read alouds for kids! I have a mouse puppet that the kids really enjoy playing with!
July 29, 2008
ok these are some more of my favorite kids books! They are just so cute and have great illustrations!
August 2, 2008
Greedy, Greedy, Greedy.
September 2, 2008
This is a family favorite set! I love the play on words!
October 8, 2008
i love these childrens books...my kids like them too and because of the repetition and predictability they can "read" them too
January 6, 2009
These are so fun and cute! I mean if you did not read these as a kid or did not read them to any children, read them atleast to yourself! But it is more fun with a little one.
February 4, 2010
This is set, but specifically keying in on "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" it is very similar to the curosities of "If You Give A Moose a Muffin" It's a fun read for kids!
April 11, 2010
I don't LOVE this books, but the kids sure do! The repetition and familiar pattern never seems to get old to the kid audience...guess that's a good thing.
April 25, 2010
Great book for a read aloud!It can also motivate students to read.
July 19, 2010
Cute set that tells the same theme of animals getting carried away when either a little boy or little girl that invite them in to their homes.
December 4, 2010
sequencing
February 2, 2011
This is a great book to use for teaching cause and effect! I have seen my teacher use it with her first grade class and the storyline and pictures make it really easy to understand.
June 28, 2013
Simply adorable!
September 17, 2013
These are good books to use to teach cause and effect. Each book shows a sequence of events that occur because of the previous event (if you did this, then this will happen).
November 29, 2013
A fun series of books that children can follow along with out even reading the text.
December 13, 2013
These books are so adorable!!
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