# 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

## Where this book is assigned

### Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Alabama — [source: Winner, Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award 1986, grades K-1. Given by the Alabama State Department of Education, Library Media. Winner (not nominee); verified against the award archive 2026-09-04.](https://sites.google.com/view/camelliaawards/home)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Alabama — [source: Winner, Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award 1986, grades K-1. Given by the Alabama State Department of Education, Library Media. Winner (not nominee); verified against the award archive 2026-09-04.](https://sites.google.com/view/camelliaawards/home)

### Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Ohio — [source: Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award — official winners list (Ohio, K-12 grade bands, voted biennially/annually since 1982)](https://bcbookaward.info/childrens-previous-nominees/)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Ohio — [source: Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award — official winners list (Ohio, K-12 grade bands, voted biennially/annually since 1982)](https://bcbookaward.info/childrens-previous-nominees/)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Ohio — [source: Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award — official winners list (Ohio, K-12 grade bands, voted biennially/annually since 1982)](https://bcbookaward.info/childrens-previous-nominees/)

### California Young Reader Medal

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · California — [source: California Young Reader Medal past winners, 1988 winner (Primary)](https://californiayoungreadermedal.org/s/CYRM-Winners-Complete-List-yhxf.pdf)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · California — [source: California Young Reader Medal past winners, 1988 winner (Primary)](https://californiayoungreadermedal.org/s/CYRM-Winners-Complete-List-yhxf.pdf)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · California — [source: California Young Reader Medal past winners, 1988 winner (Primary)](https://californiayoungreadermedal.org/s/CYRM-Winners-Complete-List-yhxf.pdf)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · California — [source: California Young Reader Medal past winners, 1988 winner (Primary)](https://californiayoungreadermedal.org/s/CYRM-Winners-Complete-List-yhxf.pdf)

### Summer reading lists

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: The First Academy — Kindergarten Read-Aloud & Early Readers Suggested Summer Reading](https://thefirstacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/K-Prep-and-K-Read-Aloud-Reading.pdf)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: CES Academy — Grade-by-Grade Summer Reading List](https://www.ces-schools.net/summer-reading-a-grade-by-grade-recommended-reading-list-for-kids/)

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