Laura Joffe Numeroff writes picture books built around comic chains of cause and effect, best known for If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. In that story, one small request leads to another as the mouse asks for milk, a straw, a mirror and further items until the sequence circles back towards its beginning. Companion books apply the same pattern to characters such as a moose, pig, dog and cat, making repetition and prediction part of the reading experience for young children. Numeroff's text is brief and rhythmic, leaving much of the humour to the escalating logic of the requests and the illustrations. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is the defining book for Numeroff's circular cause-and-effect pattern, with the companion titles turning repetition and prediction into part of shared reading. Read more Less
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