**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist
The author of this wonderful little book, Amy Krouse Rosenthal and the illustrator, Jane Dyer have used cookies, yes I said cookies, to teach children some very important life lessons. Actually, these life lessons all boil down to good manners, which in my opinion, is one of the most important lessons of all. Good manners will carry a child far in life and the sooner they learn these lessons the better.
Each page of this book addresses a new word or new term. Examples are modest, proud, respect, trustworthy, fair, unfair, compassionate, greedy, generous, polite, loyal, envy and so many others. A closer look at these examples would be: "Compassionate means, don't worry, its okay you can have part of my cookie," or "Respect means offering the very first cookie to your grandmother." "Cooperate means, how about you add the chips while I stir?" Each little line is a story within itself and each teaches a wonderful lesson. But that is not all folks!
The illustrations in this work are some of the best I have seen in recent years. The artist has used children interacting with anthropomorphized animals, much like those found in the work of Potter in dress, facial expressions and actions, to tell the story. The costumes of these various critters, rabbits, horses, dogs, bears, cats rabbits, and even frogs is absolute stunning and so very eye catching.
This work, published in 2006, brings a timeless message which is becoming more and more important everyday...i.e. good manners. It is an ideal book to read one on one with a child or to just hand the child and have them contemplate the message the author and illustrator is offering.
This work, published in 2006, brings a timeless message which is becoming more and more important everyday...i.e. good manners. It is an ideal book to read one on one with a child or to just hand the child and have them contemplate the message the author and illustrator is offering.
This is another of those works that should become a classic and should not be lost to the bottom shelves in the library or used book stores. It belongs on the shelf of a child's library and is one of those that should be passed from generation to generation. I was absolutely delighted to find this one in both our public library and our public school library and I am proud to report to you that they show signs of some very heavy reading. This encourages me.
Recommend this one highly.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
Word Count: 383
Page Count: 40
Accelerated Reading level: 3.1 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 107027
Lexile: AD760L
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- ISBN-10: 006058081X
- sample pages available
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