One Smart Cookie: Bite-Size Lessons for the School Years and Beyond – A Picture Book of Definitions and Wisdom for Children - Hardcover

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061429708 ISBN 13: 9780061429705

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

Synopsis

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of I Wish You More, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a touching batch of cookie-centric words and definitions to share.

Encourage the development of empathy, kindness, and perseverance while cuddling with your young reader around One Smart Cookie.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal's morsels of wisdom are paired with the delicious illustrations of mother-daughter duo Jane Dyer and Brooke Dyer. Definitions range from wanting to know everything about cookies (curious) to thinking carefully about what kind of cookies to make for your friend (ponder). This is a tasty vocabulary list that will resonate well beyond the school years.

About this title

About the Authors

Amy Krouse Rosenthal wrote more than thirty picture books, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Dear Girl, (cowritten with her daughter, Paris Rosenthal) and I Wish You More (cowritten with Tom Lichtenheld). A con­tributor to NPR, TED collaborator and speaker, filmmaker, and the author of two groundbreaking memoirs (Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal), she raised her three children with her husband, Jason, in Chicago. For more about Amy’s life, work, and the foundation formed in her memory, please see amykrouserosenthalfoundation.org.

Jane Dyer is the illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Cookies series by Amy Krouse Rosenthal as well as numerous other award-winning picture books. She lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Brooke Dyer is the illustrator of Sleep, Black Bear, Sleep by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple and Mama Always Comes Home by Karma Wilson. Brooke lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, with her husband, three young children, and their dog, Sophie.

From the Back Cover

One Smart Cookie offers a fresh batch of words that encompasses everything you might say to a child, whether it's the first day of preschool or the last day of high school. Cookie-centric definitions range from wanting to know everything about cookies (curious) to thinking carefully about what kind of cookies to make for your friend (ponder). This book mixes Amy Krouse Rosenthal's morsels of wisdom with the delicious illustrations of mother-daughter duo Jane Dyer and Brooke Dyer. This is one vocabulary list that will resonate well beyond the school years.

Reviews

Gr 1-2–Who wants chocolate "all-chip-in" cookies? This book uses sweet confections to explore creative ways to approach a challenge, think of others, and work hard. A brief illustrated glossary serves up a batch of essential life lessons through the collaborative activity of making cookies. The words themselves aren't always simple–e.g., "prompt," "organized," "prepared," "compromise," "empathy," "integrity"–but the explanations hit close to the heart and simplify the definition for younger readers. "CONTRIBUTE means you don't just sit back while everyone else makes the cookies; each of us is doing our part and adding something good." Old-fashioned images in bright watercolor illustrations invite readers to look twice: first at the charm of each cookie-baking vignette, and secondly at the detail given children and their animal friends joining in humanlike roles and dress. Cookies tie together the theme of the book; the making of them adds to the sweetness of the message.Mary Elam, Learning Media Services Plano ISD, TX
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The fourth book in Rosenthal’s “cookie” series offers a new set of delectable words and defines them with sensitivity to a child’s experiences. In this imaginative, childlike world, “EMPATHY means, Your feelings somehow came into my feelings, and it feels to me like you could use a cookie right now.” Clean, spacious design heightens the powerful charm of the watercolor illustrations, in which serious yet kindly dressed animals share the domestic scenes with children. A treat to be pondered and savored, the book closes with a recipe for “One Smart Cookie,” a Smarties-laden sugar cookie. Preschool-Grade 1. --Carolyn Phelan

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061429708
• ISBN 13: 9780061429705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Dyer Jane, Dyer Brooke
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40