If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

""If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk.""

- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is a children's picture book written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond. Each page has a large, colorful picture and short sentence telling the story of a (nameless yet, oddly, eponymous) mouse and an equally nameless boy. The story starts, naturally, with the boy giving the mouse a cookie. The story goes on from there, with the mouse needing a new item on each page. It ends up with the mouse,.

The many, many sequels (If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Give a Bear a Brownie, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, If You Give a Dog a Donut) all follow approximately the same plot, with variations on the animal and food item.

This book contains examples of:

 * A Boy and His X: A boy and his mouse.
 * Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The book is about a mouse. Who wants a cookie.
 * Nameless Narrative
 * Interspecies Friendship
 * Second Person Narration
 * Stock Animal Diet: Averted. This mouse eats cookies. With milk, of course.
 * Talking Animal: The eponymous mouse.
 * Talking Animal: The eponymous mouse.