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Author | Laura Joffe Numeroff |
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Illustrator | Felicia Bond |
Language | English |
Series | If You Give... |
Genre | Children's literature |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Hardback |
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is an American children's picture book written by Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond, first published in 1985 by Harper and Row. Described as a "circular tale", [1] illustrating a slippery slope, it is Numeroff and Bond's first collaboration in what came to be the If You Give... series. [2]
The entire story is told in second person. A boy gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings). Next, he wants to take a nap, have a story read to him, draw a picture, and hang the drawing on the refrigerator. Looking at the refrigerator makes him thirsty, so the mouse asks for a glass of milk. The circle is complete when he wants a cookie to go with it. [3]
The text was interpreted by illustrator Felicia Bond to show the increasing energy of the mouse, with the little boy being run ragged by the end of the story. The art was praised by School Library Journal for its "meticulous attention to detail", [1] and was executed with vibrant colors of blended pencil in a complex process of layering magenta, cyan, yellow, and black on separate sheets, which were then assembled during printing.
Bond describes rushing to get the sketches done before leaving town with her boyfriend, and that the energy of the mouse evolved from that excitement. She has mentioned on numerous occasions that the little boy in the book was her boyfriend, Stephen Roxburgh, as a child.
If You Givea Mouse a Cookie won a number of awards following its release, including the Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award (1986-87), [4] Georgia Children's Book Award (1988), Buckeye Children's Book Award (1989), [5] Nevada Young Readers' Award (1989), [6] California Young Reader Medal (1988), [7] Colorado Children's Book Award (1988). [8]
Additionally, it was a nominee for the Nebraska Golden Sower Award in 1987, the Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award and Kentucky Bluegrass Award in 1988, and the Grand Canyon Reader Award in 1989. [8]
In 2006, Numeroff won the Milner Award for her work on If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. [9] The book was inducted into the Picture Book Hall of Fame in 2015. [8]
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie [10] quickly became established as a popular favorite and is today considered a contemporary classic. [11] In 1993, the book was featured on Reading Rainbow. [12]
Charles Schulz created two Peanuts strips about If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. [13] In 2000, Oprah Winfrey chose If You Give a Pig a Pancake as one of her favorite things. [14] She also included it on her list Oprah's Favorite Things from A-Z in that same year. [15] "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" was the answer to a question on Jeopardy! .
The Bronx Zoo featured the art in its Children's Zoo for one year. The series has fans of all ages from all over the world including Japan, where an entire Tokyo city bus was painted with images of Mouse.
The book has also made it to the White House. In Laura Bush's Celebration of American Authors at the 2001 Presidential Inauguration, Felicia Bond and Laura Numeroff were among those honored for their If You Give... series. [16] The Bush family writes that their cat India's favorite book was If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. [17] A bronze sculpture of her sleeping on the book is included in the George W. Bush Presidential Library. [18] First Lady Michelle Obama read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie on the White House lawn during the 2009 Easter Egg Roll. [19]
The book itself was featured in an episode of Kino's Storytime , [20] and appeared as part of a "Mail Time" segment on the Blue's Clues episode "Blue's ABCs".
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An animated series adaptation of the same name was released on Amazon Prime. It debuted as part of Amazon's 2015 Pilot Season before the If You Give a Mouse a Christmas Cookie holiday special was released on November 25, 2016. [21] The show's first season was released on November 7, 2017, with Numeroff and Bond serving as executive producers. [22] Singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb provided original music for the show. [23]
The books have also been adapted into plays for children's theaters. [24] [25] [26] [27] [28]
Following the success of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Numeroff and Bond have worked together on several other books that now make up the If You Give... series: [29]
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