If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" was one of my favorite books as a child, and is probably written toward the younger age range up to about age 7. It probably had to do with the repetition of phrases and the way you could always guess what the next page was going to say, and I loved to be able to figure out the next lines. The book is about the series and consequences that take place if you happen to give a mouse a cookie, and the repetition that occurs. Laura Joffe Numeroff did a great job of making the book flow as if it were a rhyming book, when there was none at all. The other thing that I loved about this book were the illustrations. The illustrator was Felicia Bond and she was able to give the characters so much life and humor throughout her drawings. As a child, the pictures of a big were probably the most important thing for me, and these pictures were able to keep me entertained throughout the whole book. In the classroom, you might be able to use this book when introducing various rules and consequences, because it demonstrates what happens from one event to another. Although it doesn't show strict consequences, it would still be a fun and useful book to choose for younger students to understand the concept of consequences of their actions.