{"id":54966,"date":"2024-12-26T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=54966"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:47:55","slug":"december-2024-childrens-books-spotlight-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/december-2024-childrens-books-spotlight-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2024 Children’s Books Spotlight: Cookies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy December! This month, I have been making young readers crave cookie books! Below are the titles that I have been reading during my outreach storytimes!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Who Ate all the Cookie Dough?<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
\nby Karen Beaumont, illustrated by Eugene Yelchin<\/p>\n

Kangaroo is whipping up a batch of cookies to discover that the cookie dough has been eaten? Who did it? On a mission to find the culprit, Kanga visits her animal friends.<\/p>\n

I had so much fun with this book! Many children claimed that they were the ones to have eaten the cookie dough. So cute!<\/p>\n

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The Cookie Book of Colors<\/em><\/a>\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong>by Holly Fox<\/p>\n

Dive into a world of color with this gorgeously, delicious board book. Each spread in this book showcases a different color with corresponding cookies decorated in that color!<\/p>\n

This was fun to share with my younger groups. The content was engaging and allowed the children to shout colors as they saw them. It was fun to ask them what shapes they saw on each page.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cookies! : An Interactive Recipe Book<\/a>
\n<\/i><\/b>by Lotta Nieminen<\/p>\n

Learn how to bake cookies from scratch in this interactive and engaging board book. Children will have the ability to sift in flour, crack eggs, mix together ingredients, and so much more while learning about how to make a beloved chocolate chip cookie.<\/p>\n

Be prepared to make cookies after reading this. Your little and you may have a sudden craving!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Best Mouse Cookie<\/a>
\n<\/i><\/b>by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond<\/p>\n

Mouse is having a craving for cookies and has gathered all of the ingredients! Baking seems pretty easy, if you don’t drop your eggs on the floor and accidentally take a mouse nap while they bake!<\/p>\n

This adorable classic tale still measures up with young audiences and adds an element of suspense to your storytime!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If You Give a Mouse a Cookie<\/a>
\n<\/i><\/b>by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond<\/span><\/p>\n

Mouse is given a chocolate chip cookie by a young boy leading into a series of requests leaving the young boy exhausted. Who would have thought that giving a mouse a cookie could lead to so many consequences and such a large mess?<\/p>\n

If You Give A Mouse a Cookie\u00a0<\/em>is a classic tale that has stood up to the test of time. Definitely an oldie but a cookie – I mean goodie. Who wants a cookie?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Duckling Gets a Cookie<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/em>by Mo Willems<\/p>\n

Oh no, the adorable duckling has politely asked for a cookie and was rewarded for the use of excellent manners. In comes pigeon who is not at all pleased that the duckling received a cookie just by asking. The pigeon asks for things all of the time and never gets what he wants! WHY?!<\/p>\n

Our cantankerous protagonist is at it again and is sure to make young readers giggle with glee.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Cow Loves Cookies<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/em>by Karma Wilson, illustrated by Marcellus Hall<\/p>\n

The farmer feeds the horse his hay, he feeds the chickens chicken feed each day. He gives the pigs their slop each morn, the geese enjoy sweet cracked corn. The cow, however, won’t eat that stuff, she prefers cookies!<\/p>\n

This story, written in rhyme, is engaging and adorable for all young readers!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cookie Truck: a Sugar Cookie Shapes Book<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/em>by Caroline Wright, illustrated by Alison Oliver<\/p>\n

Gather your ingredients for the perfect sugar cookie. Roll out your dough and then cut out the shapes necessary for the perfect truck!<\/p>\n

This adorable book introduces shapes and how they can be placed together to create objects!<\/p>\n

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Have you read any of these titles? I would love to hear about what you thought of them in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy December! This month, I have been making young readers crave cookie books! Below are the titles that I have been reading during my outreach storytimes! Who Ate all the Cookie Dough? by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by Eugene Yelchin Kangaroo is whipping up a batch of cookies to discover that[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":54973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5,1,8,5991],"tags":[9576,7927,9575,9562,9574,354,9564,9560,9568,9563,9569,8224,9559,9572,9567,9565,9573,7951,2130,9566,9561,9571,9570,9558],"class_list":["post-54966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","category-staff-picks","category-straight-off-the-shelf","tag-alison-oliver","tag-board-books","tag-caroline-wright","tag-colors","tag-cookie-truck-a-sugar-cookie-shapes-book","tag-cookies","tag-cookies-an-interactive-recipe-book","tag-eugene-yelchin","tag-felicia-bond","tag-holly-fox","tag-if-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie","tag-interactive-picture-books","tag-karen-beaumont","tag-karma-wilson","tag-laura-joffe-numeroff","tag-lotta-nieminen","tag-marcellus-hall","tag-mo-willems","tag-picture-books","tag-the-best-mouse-cookie","tag-the-cookie-book-of-colors","tag-the-cow-loves-cookies","tag-the-duckling-gets-a-cookie","tag-who-ate-all-the-cookie-dough"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7106636.jpg?fit=318%2C313&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-eiy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54966"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54984,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54966\/revisions\/54984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}