If You Give a Moose a Muffin - Hardcover

Laura Joffe Numeroff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007128371 ISBN 13: 9780007128372

Publisher: Picture Lions, 2002

Synopsis

If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. If you give him a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it. When he's eaten all your muffins, he'll want to go to the store to get some more muffin mix.

In this hilarious sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, the young host is again run ragged by a surprise guest. Young readers will delight in the comic complications that follow when a little boy entertains a gregarious moose.If you give a moose a muffin, he’s going to want some jam to go with it. And if you give a child this audiocassette package, he or she is going to want to hear Robby Benson’s warm and witty reading of the best-selling If You Give a Moose a Muffin again and again. . . . This companion to the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie mini book and tape package also includes ‘Doin’ the Moose,’ a swinging song that’ll send kids be-bopping across the kitchen floor; ‘The Muffin Game,’ a rousing interactive singalong complete with egg cracking and berry picking; and snippets from Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond on how they came up with ideas for the book.

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Review:

"If you give a moose a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it." So begins the most logical silliness to be found anywhere--at least since Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Readers will follow a young boy and his voracious visitor through a series of antlered antics: jam reveries and puppet shows and big messes. It all makes perfect sense, really, once you stop to think about it. What moose wouldn't want to borrow a sweater when it's cold outside? And why shouldn't the loose button on the sweater remind him of his grandmother? Bond's cleverly detailed, witty illustrations perfectly complement Numeroff's deadpan style. Through just a few deft words and brush strokes, the reader gets a real sense of the unique personalities of the two characters. Children will relate easily to the full-circle reasoning of the story, while picking up the concept of cause and effect. The moral of the story? Keep plenty of muffin mix and blackberry jam in your cupboard. You never know who may drop by. (Great read aloud, ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

From the Back Cover:

If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. If you give him a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it. When he's eaten all your muffins, he'll want to go to the store to get some more muffin mix.

In this hilarious sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, the young host is again run ragged by a surprise guest. Young readers will delight in the comic complications that follow when a little boy entertains a gregarious moose.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picture Lions
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0007128371
• ISBN 13: 9780007128372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Felicia Bond