If You Give Set: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, If You Take a Mouse to School, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, and If You Give a Pig a Pancake

If You Give... #1-5

by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illustrator)

Five funny all-time favorites with characters your child knows and loves! Includes If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, and If You Take a Mouse to School

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Christmas, Fantasy, Animals

First published October 7, 2003

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

[Dan Prillwitz · Rating 3 out of 5]

"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.

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Emma Pruett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book for cause and effect.

[TearaTomlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I 💘this book

[MARTINJOHNSON KIDS · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is going to be fun

[ccharlotte feng · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of my childhood favorites 🥹💗
one of my forever favorites 🥲💞

[Kimbely Fletcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Whitney Bailey]

Great 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.

[Libby]

I 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.

[Ellenjsmellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great series. I wish I thought of that first!

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Anica · Rating 4 out of 5]

These make me laugh. Cute books.

[Anisia · Rating 5 out of 5]

They are all so cute! They have their own little ingredient added to it.

[Jessica · Rating 2 out of 5]

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.

[Sara Marsh Billiet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read alouds for kids! I have a mouse puppet that the kids really enjoy playing with!

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

ok these are some more of my favorite kids books! They are just so cute and have great illustrations!

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Greedy, Greedy, Greedy.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a family favorite set! I love the play on words!

[Amandalynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love these childrens books...my kids like them too and because of the repetition and predictability they can "read" them too

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Breana Vining · Rating 4 out of 5]

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!

[Mary Train · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Laree Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for a read aloud!It can also motivate students to read.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Brittnay · Rating 5 out of 5]

sequencing

[Sung Baick · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simply adorable!

[Caitrin · Rating 4 out of 5]

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).

[Ashley Pohl · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun series of books that children can follow along with out even reading the text.

[komadori_le_wizard · Rating 5 out of 5]

These books are so adorable!!