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Laura Numeroff was one of my favorite childhood picture book authors, and she remains a favorite now that I am an adult! She also happens to be the author of the month for the virtual book club for kids! I thought I would highlight three our favorites from her books, as well as activities you can do to go with them!
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is my all-time favorite Laura Numeroff book! I remember my mother delighting in reading about this tiny mouse exhausting the little boy – much in the same way that tiny people leave their parents exhausted! We have a few activities that go well with this book:
- Make some felt cookies – no sewing required!
- Try out one of our favorite cookie recipes:
- Spend some time drawing together. This simple and fun drawing game requires only a sense of humor – no artistic talent!
- If You Give a Cat a Cupcake is the perfect excuse to host a cupcake decorating party! This delicious children’s activity is quite simple to set up and has been requested by my kids for every birthday party to day! Check out Johnny’s LEGO birthday party post for my current favorite frosting recipe!
- The moose in If You Give a Moose a Muffin is one of my favorite children’s book characters. This book is a great opportunity to try our whole wheat carrot muffins, make some simple stick puppets, use small stickers as puppets, or give sock puppets a go!
- Make Swedish Pancakes to go along with If You Give a Pig a Pancake
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.What is your favorite Laura Numeroff book? Do you have a favorite activity for one of her books?
MaryAnne lives is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
We love “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie!” I have to try to find some of the other titles and I really need to make some felt cookies!
Love the activities you listed to go with each book.
We loved all her books! Especially “Pig Pancake” and “Mouse Cookie” which we shortened it too as it was requested so many times at bedtime!!! “Moose Muffin” too!
We love all of her books.
We have been reading “If you give a mouse a cookie” and I have been meaning to make a microwave-cookie with Aarya ( I have never really *cooked* anything with Aarya) but sadly we have had a week of stomach flue, cold and coughs! So waiting for all that to pass! Meanwhile I really like the other ideas you have showcased, lets see if we can do them while he lies on sofa.
I remember reading these books about a million times :)Love Laura Numeroff. By the way, I also really like her Jellybeans series.
We have one of her Jellybeans books and my kids like it! I should look for some of the others in that series.
I love Laura Numeroff
The only one I read was If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. I really like the concept although my one gripe is that I wish it didn’t have to be about cookies. My kiddo didn’t eat them when he was really little so I felt weird reading about cookies to him.
I was actually thinking while writing this post that it would be fun to have one about inviting an animal for dinner (and having them help cook). The first book was written in 1985, back when nobody thought much of feeding toddlers cookies!
I would imagine that giving a mouse a cookie would keep a person on her toes! :)
It certainly does in this book!
I never knew about Laura Numeroff until I was a parent. Now, I think we have her whole series, which we all enjoy :-)
She writes very cute books!