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Born July 14, 1953

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Alabama Young Reader Medal, 1986

California Young Reader Medal, 1987

Colorado Book Award, 1988

Georgia Children's Picture Book Award, 1988

Nevada Young Reader Award, 1988

Ohio Buckeye Children's Book Award, 1989

Quill Award, 2006

The Milner Award, 2007

Reading Rainbow Feature Selection

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Raising a Hero (2016)

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (1985)

If You Give a Mouse a Brownie (2016)

If You Give a Moose a Muffin (1991)

If You Give a Pig a Pancake (1998)

If You Give a Dog a Donut (2011)

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake (2008)

If You Give a Pig a Party (2005)

If You Take a Mouse to School (2002)

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies (2000)

Mouse Cookies & More: A Treasury (2015)

The Best Mouse Cookie (2006)

Merry Christmas, Mouse! (2007)

Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse! (2009)

Happy Easter, Mouse! (2010)

It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse! (2012)

Happy Birthday, Mouse! (2012)

Time for School, Mouse! (2008)

The Jellybeans and the Big Dance

The Jellybeans and the Big Book Bonanza

The Jellybeans and the Big Camp Kickoff

The Jellybeans and the Big Art Adventure

The Jellybeans Love to Dance

What Mommies Do Best/What Daddies Do Best

What Aunts Do Best/What Uncles Do Best

What Grandmas Do Best/What Grandpas Do Best

What Sisters Do Best/What Brothers Do Best

What Puppies Do Best

Nighty-Night, Cooper

Ponyella

Otis & Sydney and the Best Birthday Ever

If You Give a Man a Cookie: A Parody

Beatrice Doesn’t Want to

Sometimes I Wonder If Poodles Like Noodles

Monster Munchies

The Chicken Sisters

Laura Numeroff’s Ten Step Guide to Living with Your Monster

Dogs Don’t Wear Sneakers

Chimps Don’t Wear Glasses

Two For Stew

Lots of Lambs

Why a Disguise?

When Sheep Sleep

Emily’s Bunch

Does Grandma Have an Elmo Elephant Jungle Kit

You Can’t Put Braces on Spaces

Phoebe Dexter Has Harriet Peterson’s Sniffles

If You Give an Author a Pencil

Sherman Crunchley

Amy for Short

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I love reading all her books. I have read all of the If You Give A Mouse A Cookie series and now a few other books she has written. I think her books appeal to all children and the illustrators she has chosen for each book or series of books is perfect. I love the way she writes because the concepts are simple for children to understand while also keeping it appealing to children to read.

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1. Numeroff was born in Brooklyn, New York and was the youngest of three girls.
2. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a degree in communcations.
3. She is an avid animal lover and donates to animal charities.
4. She loves to read biographies, nonfiction, and stories about travel.
5. If You Give A Mouse A Cookie was turned down nine times before someone bought it.
6. She lives in California and likes to just drive around and look at cows.
7. Before she made it as a writer, she did odd jobs like an attendant for a merry-go-round and doing personal investigation work.
8. She wants to eventually write screenplay and adult fiction.
9. She originally went to college for fashion design and changed her major after her first year.
10. The first book she published, Amy For Short, was actually a homework assignment in college.

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We meet Max in the beginning, a puppy that is going to be a training dog. He tells us all the wonderful things a service dog can do to help people. Max lets us know that each service dog starts out with a puppy raiser, his puppy raiser is Sam. He says he is trained by Sam until he is old enough for a training school. He likes to wear his service dog yellow vest. He liked puppy kindergarten and is friends with all the dogs there. He likes to learn new commands. He gets distracted by the squirrels and is impressed by dogs who do not get distracted. He has to practice not being distracted. He likes that he can go all the places most dogs are not allowed. He loves to go to the movies with his owner. He listens to his owner read out loud and then they both brush their teeth. He is so excited to be able to help people and considers himself a hero.

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Emily loves to dance. She dances all the time, anywhere she can. At the beginning of this book, Emily is on her way to her first dance class. Many of her classmates are not as excited as Emily is. Emily thought she was going to get to dress like a princess but for their first recital, they are going to be bugs. She also doesn’t think her classmates have anything in common. They begin dancing and knocking into each other. Many classes are awful and she ends up telling her mom that she didn’t like the dance class so her mom takes her shopping for new dance clothes. She ends up bonding with her friends over sharing jellybeans. They decided to call themselves the dancing jelly beans. They all end up working together in order to make the recital fun.

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This book starts out by saying grandmas can play hide-and-seek. You go through the book seeing all the things grandmas do for you. You see that grandmas spend time with you by showing you photos, taking you on picnics, and helping you fly kites. Grandmas take care of you by giving you a bath and singing you a lullaby. At the end of the book, it says that the thing that grandmas do best is giving you love. It shows kids that love is the most important thing you can receive.

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This book follows a mouse through the events of his day. He starts out by wanting a cookie and some milk. We can see that he has a long day about to start as he ramps up for the next thing he needs. The illustration is perfect for grabbing children’s attention. He then goes through the day. We watch as he cleans the house, colors a picture, has a book read to him, and by the end of the book he asks for another glass of milk. What did he want to go with it? Of course, a cookie to go with his milk.

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If You Give A Dog A Donut starts off by talking about if you give your dog a donut, he is going to want apple juice to go with it. You then follow the dog’s owner on a tale of what happens after that. The dog must go to the apple tree to get apples to make more juice. He gets distracted with throwing the apple. He wants to play baseball and then make a kite. By the end of the story, he asks for more apple juice again. Then they start back at square one because he wants a donut to go with his apple juice.

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https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Laura-Numeroff/627860

https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/laura-numeroff

https://www.mousecookiebooks.com/meet/

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/laura-numeroff/

https://lauranumeroff.com/

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Laura Numeroff reads her book Raising a Hero on National Puppy Day!!!