Английская Википедия:If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is an American children's picture book written by Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond, first published in 1985 by Harper and Row. Described as a "circular tale",[1] illustrating a slippery slope, it is Numeroff and Bond's first collaboration in what came to be the If You Give... series.[2]

Plot

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From If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

The entire story is told in second person. A boy named Matthew gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings). Next, he wants to take a nap, have a story read to him, draw a picture, and hang the drawing on the refrigerator. Looking at the refrigerator makes him thirsty, so the mouse asks for a glass of milk. The circle is complete when he wants a cookie to go with it.

Art

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From If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

The text was interpreted by illustrator Felicia Bond to show the increasing energy of the mouse, with the little boy being run ragged by the end of the story. The art was praised by School Library Journal for its "meticulous attention to detail",[1] and was executed with vibrant colors of blended pencil in a complex process of layering magenta, cyan, yellow, and black on separate sheets, which were then assembled during printing.

Bond describes rushing to get the sketches done before leaving town with her boyfriend, and that the energy of the mouse evolved from that excitement. She has mentioned on numerous occasions that the little boy in the book was her boyfriend, Stephen Roxburgh, as a child.

In popular culture

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From If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie[3] quickly became established as a popular favorite and is today considered a contemporary classic.[4] A series of 17 titles[5] followed. They have been translated into more than 13 languages. The If You Give... series has garnered numerous awards and their popularity is witnessed by their consistent presence on The New York Times Best Seller List.

Charles Schulz created two Peanuts strips[6] about If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and in 2000 Oprah Winfrey chose If You Give a Pig a Pancake as one of her favorite things.[7] She also included it on her list Oprah's Favorite Things from A-Z in that same year.[8] "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" was the answer to a question on Jeopardy!. The books have been adapted into plays for children's theaters.[9][10][11][12][13] The Bronx Zoo in New York featured the art in their Children's Zoo for one year and the artwork has been used to create murals in the wings of children's hospitals. The series has fans of all ages from all over the world including Japan, where an entire Tokyo city bus was painted with images of Mouse. Mouse also made it to the White House; in Laura Bush's Celebration of American Authors at the 2001 Presidential Inauguration Felicia Bond and Laura Numeroff were among those honored for their If You Give... series,[14] and the former First Lady writes that the Bush family cat India's favorite book was If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. A bronze sculpture of her sleeping on the book is included in the George W. Bush Presidential Library.[15] First Lady Michelle Obama read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie on the White House lawn during the 2009 Easter Egg Roll.[16]

The book itself was featured in an episode of Kino's Storytime, and appeared as part of a "Mail Time" segment on the Blue's Clues episode "Blue's ABCs".

Compilations

Selected translations

Adaptations

An animated series adaptation of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie was released on Amazon Prime on November 7, 2017.[17][18]

A live-action short film adaptation called The Mouse was released on YouTube on January 6, 2021, by video content creator Andrew Ruosso. [19][20]

References

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Further reading

External links

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite journal
  2. ↑ If You Give... series—list of all If You Give...
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  4. ↑ Storypath Summary "contemporary classic in children’s literature"
  5. ↑ If You Give... illustrated by Felicia Bond
  6. ↑ Charles Schulz features If You Give a Mouse a Cookie in Peanuts, The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators, Anita Silvey (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) Шаблон:ISBN
  7. ↑ "...written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond is the perfect gift for the little ones in your life. "It just thrilled me," Oprah says."
  8. ↑ Oprah's Favorite Things from A-Z - If You Give a Pig a Pancake
  9. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  10. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  11. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  12. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  13. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  14. ↑ Laura Bush read If You Take a Mouse to the Movies to the children over the holidays.
  15. ↑ India "Willie Bush, the family cat's favorite book If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
  16. ↑ If You Give a Mouse a Cookie on the White House lawn
  17. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  18. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  19. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  20. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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