Laura Joffe Numeroff

Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.

One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake.

A series of increasingly far-fetched events might occur if someone were to give a cupcake to a cat.

One thing leads to another when you give a pig a party.

The Jellybeans--four friends who have different strengths and talents--work together to make their book reports a success and to promote a love of reading.

If you give a mouse a brownie, he's going to ask for some ice cream to go with it. When you give him the ice cream, he'll probably ask you for a spoon. He'll start drumming on the table. Drumming will get him so excited he ll want to start a band. . . .

One side of this upside-down book celebrates all of the things grandmas do for their grandchildren. Turning the book over and around produces a similar celebration of grandpas.

The Chicken sisters drive a troublesome wolf home to his mother with their overwhelming eccentricities.

Mothers and fathers participating in everyday activities show their love for their children in very similar ways.

The JellyBeans--four friends who like to do such different things as paint, play soccer, read, and dance--paint a mural on an outside wall of Mrs. Petunia Dinkley-Sneezer's candy shop that depicts them each doing what they love best.