Laura Joffe Numeroff

Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.

If you give a man a cookie...he's going to want milk to go with it...God forbid he should get it himself. If You Give a Man a Cookie is a woman's commentary about her helpless man and the chain of events that leads him on a journey from the bed to the bathroom to the couch and back to bed at nightfall.

Chaos might ensue if you were to give a dog a donut.

One thing leads to another when you give a pig a party.

One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake.

If you give a mouse a brownie, he's going to ask for some ice cream to go with it. When you give him the ice cream, he'll probably ask you for a spoon. He'll start drumming on the table. Drumming will get him so excited he ll want to start a band...

Read one way, this book describes all the wonderful things sisters do, and when turned over, it depicts why brothers are special.

One side of this upside-down book celebrates all of the things grandmas do for their grandchildren. Turning the book over and around produces a similar celebration of grandpas.

The Chicken sisters drive a troublesome wolf home to his mother with their overwhelming eccentricities.