# If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

**Author:** Laura Numeroff
**Lexile:** 410L
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**Age range:** 3–8
**First published:** 1985
**Page count:** 32
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780060245863`
**ISBN-10:** `0060245867`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Give a mouse a cookie and he'll want a glass of milk — then a straw, a napkin, a mirror, and a circular chain of requests that loops right back to the start. Laura Numeroff's cause-and-effect favorite is a read-aloud staple for pre-K through grade 3.

## Themes

- humor
- imagination
- cause and effect

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