Laura Joffe Numeroff

One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake.

If you give a man a cookie...he's going to want milk to go with it...God forbid he should get it himself. If You Give a Man a Cookie is a woman's commentary about her helpless man and the chain of events that leads him on a journey from the bed to the bathroom to the couch and back to bed at nightfall.

When four friends with different talents and abilities go to summer camp together, they use their strengths to make camp fun for all.

When four young girls meet in dance class, it takes time for them to find a way--and a reason--to pull together as one, but Emily helps them realize that, just like a bag of jellybeans, they can be different and still go well together.

Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.

The Chicken sisters drive a troublesome wolf home to his mother with their overwhelming eccentricities.

Relates the increasingly outrageous demands a mouse is likely to make if it is given a brownie.

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

Animal grandpas share a variety of activities with their grandchildren, from playing hide-and-seek and making a hat to helping build a sand castle and singing a lullaby.

A series of increasingly far-fetched events might occur if someone were to give a cupcake to a cat. If you give a cat a cupcake, he'll ask for some sprinkles to go with it. When you give him the sprinkles, he might spill some on the floor. Cleaning up will make him hot, so you'll give him a bathing suit ... and that's just the beginning! Sumario en español: Si le das un pastelito a un gato, querrá ponerle confites de colores. Cuando le des los...