If You Give a Mouse Cookie By Laura Joffe Numeroff Illustrated by Felicia Bond

I had never heard of this book until I began working at the daycare I am at and that is really unfortunate since this is such a fun book. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is a fun story about a mouse that wants a cookie, then a glass of milk, then a napkin, and it goes on until the human who is serving him falls asleep. The illustrations are pretty straightforward pencil drawn pictures, however, I found the mouse to be very cute. A character that asks for one thing after another can be obnoxious but if he is cute it makes him a lot less annoying. The one issue I had with this book is that I found i had little educational value. I don't know how I would fit his book into a curriculum. I guess we could create a story about a mouse and mimic what the idea of the book. I like to chose books that can be used cross curricular. There is not that much time for to teach the children all that you would like so I would like to pick books that can be used across subjects because it might save a little time and students can see that different subjects can go together.