Laura Joffe Numeroff

Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.

Taking a mouse to the movies can lead to letting him do other things, such as making a snowman, listening to Christmas carols, and decorating the Christmas tree.

Chaos might ensue if you were to give a dog a donut.

A series of increasingly far-fetched events might occur if someone were to give a cupcake to a cat.

Mouse finds many brightly colored eggs around the house on Easter morning. On board pages. Mouse finds many brightly colored eggs around the house on Easter morning.

If you give a mouse a brownie, he's going to ask for some ice cream to go with it. When you give him the ice cream, he'll probably ask you for a spoon. He'll start drumming on the table. Drumming will get him so excited he ll want to start a band...

A little mouse bakes his own cookies in his little mouse house.

Rhyming text suggests other options when one tries to count sheep but discovers that they are all asleep.

Because the restaurant has no more stew, and the grandmother who makes it is out for the evening, two friends find a different way to enjoy themselves.

Even though animals don't normally wear glasses, cook, or read, if you use your imagination you can see them doing these and even more fantastic things.