This was a hilariously fantastic parody!! I laughed out loud for the ten minutes it took to read this book. Thank you for letting me enjoy Ms. Numeroff's satirical side!!

I don't think the series this book is parodying has crossed the Atlantic - certainly I don't know of it. But what I get from the real author's own send-up of it from the repressed housewife angle, is that it's great fun, and she has a healthy dose of spirit in her writing. The illustrations also make the book, and are definitely five star efforts. Yes, it's slight and definitely belongs on the 'tacky gift book' shelf in stores, but with those "adult" Ladybird Books spin-offs doing so well, this has the chance to gain a similar audience.

If You Give A Man A Cookie is about a wife and the annoying but very typical behaviour of her husband. The husband demonstrates stereotypical husband problems - with really beautiful illustration work! My favorite part was the couples dog (and the little snaggletooths!), which appears throughout the book. This was a really fun parody and I would recommend this to friends!

Hilariously nostalgic

Laura Numeroff provided my granddaughters and myself hours and hours of enjoyment. I've just recently bought "When You Give A Mouse A Cookie for my new great granddaughter so had to read this.
It made me smile just like her original books did. Both the copy and illustrations were perfect. I really do think if you are familiar with the original books you will enjoy this light hearted story.

I received an advance reader copy from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

What a wonderfully funny parody. And I love that the author is parodying her own work. Instead of giving a Mouse a cookie, she is giving, i Assume her husband, a cookie. The story is right on. Except for the hair thing, this is my guy to a tee. While it would be fun to read to a kid, it is an adult parody and has some adult language.

If You Give A Man A Cookie is about a wife and the annoying behaviours of her husband, the eponymous man. He has some stereotypical husband problems, like worrying about his hairline, and the wife has stereotypical wife problems, like her husband not noticing her household work. I really like the illustration here, though they don't look like the ones in her other books. A funny thing was the dog in the background, which just appeared throughout the book. The ending was a good one, humorous too. Nice book to flip through.
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Imagine my delight! Not only was this a parody of the If you Give a Mouse a Cookie books, but it's by that same author!!! To be fair, I wasn't looking that closely and I'm not great with remembering names.

It goes along the same line, but it's totally written for wives. "If you give a man a cookies, he'll ask for a glass of milk to go with it...God forbid he should get it himself!"

As a mom who has read all of her books a million times each, and a wife...I just about died laughing. My husband chuckled and my kids didn't think it was funny at all. But me, Mom, I laughed and laughed and then read it a few more times.

I really have enjoyed this book. It is full of good humor and I was greatly interested what will happen next. In my humble opinion illustrations are well done and suits this book perfectly. The only downside is that this read is a short one.

One of the worse parts of reviewing is having to review books like this. While I think couples in long term relationships can appreciate this, especially those with kids that have read Numeroff's classic children books, it just misses the mark for me. It makes a bit too many gender stereotypes to be comical. Maybe this is because I am far more likely to do the things Numeroff lists in this book than my husband is, but I just didn't find it funny, true or amusing. However, don't just take my word for it, find out for yourself on October 10th!

Book 51 of my 2017 Reading Challenge
read on August 15

**I received an electronic copy of this book from NetGalley and would like to thank the author and/or publisher for the opportunity to read and honestly review it**

If You Give a Man a Cookie: A Parody by Laura Joffe Numeroff

Summary
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.

My Opinion
The illustrations were great and the book was funny.

Normally I would end with a quote from the book but this was pretty short and everything was connected so I won't do so this time.

For all those times that, as a parent, I had to read <em>If you give a mouse a cookie</em> and the other books in the series that Numeroff came up with after that, this one is so perfect.

In the original series, if you gave a mouse a cookie, he was going to want a glass of milk to go with it, and then it went on from there. In this version the man wants a glass of milk as well, and the exasperated wife thinks to herself, "God forbid he should get it himself."

As with any parody, it helps if you are familiar with the source material, and because of that, it makes this all the more fun. Especially when at the end, when he asks for a glass of milk again, and she says "he can drag his sorry ass out of bed and get it himself."


Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

This was funny and definitely worth a few minutes (but not a few dollars) It has some stereotypes that my generation was raised on, but that I feel we should start moving away from as a culture. Definitely would not use as a bedtime story for an impressionable child.

A household name thanks to enchanting children and their caregivers a world over with her “If you give” series that started innocently with a Mouse she has now turned her talents towards making women everywhere laugh, shake their heads, and roll their eyes at a relationship dynamic many know is rife for comedy.

I can only hope that in the current climate of taking offense at everything people take a break to see the humor and enjoy the lighthearted illustrations that bring her trademark wit to laugh.

It’s the perfect take on an aspect of monogamous relationships many of us have complained about to our friends while questioning the ability of our significant others to have ever made it out of childhood and to a point where they had to feed themselves and stop relying on mom to do it (hopefully or that’s a whole other therapy session).

Numeroff knows how to play up the seemingly helplessness of men, their remarkable ability to not see how selfish/childish they’re being, the extra work and strain they put on their partners and our tendency to enable it all.

This is THE gift to buy for someone who has gotten engaged, complains about her partner 24/7 or pretty much just any woman in a relationship or who is thinking about getting into one. Think of it as a warning of what is to come if you agree to get that cookie lol.

I received an ARC e-book copy of this book from NetGalley to review. The last time I read any similar children’s books was long ago and I’m not familiar with Numeroff’s book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,” which is what “If You Give a Man a Cookie: A Parody” is supposed to be based off of. I found it a little funny, but too short as I was expecting a series of funny scenarios (short chapters even), though it might be due to it being a parody of a children’s book. It seems like it would make a great gag gift for spouses, but I didn’t find it to be as “hilarious” as it was marketed to be.

From the creator of all of those great "If You Give a..." books we read as a kid, such as If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, a Pig a Pancake, a Moose a Muffin...comes an incredible parody If you Give a Man a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff.

Though the illustrations aren't reminiscent of the books I remember as a kid, I still got a kick out of this. I even made my husband read it, because it's pretty spot on, sorry fellas, but this book left me holding my gut, due to the accuracy, and the ending is pure gold.



The story begins with a man, who obviously has some quirks about him, but the story goes on to tell how if you give a man a cookie he will want to do a bunch of other things, like the typical books in this series. All of them are hilarious, but I'm not going to go into detail about each one, because I find it's so much better if you go in not knowing!
The drawings are gorgeous, the colors really pop out of the page, and make the book even funnier. This is clearly a book for adults, so don't read it to your kiddos before bed, but go ahead and have a quick laugh with your spouse!

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars, so fun, and so so funny.

I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't. I didn't find the humor in it. It seemed more like a rant than something that is enjoyable. This is a parody, but it is written by the author who wrote the original, so I was expecting great things.

I enjoyed the illustrations a lot more than the actual story. Maybe the humor was just too crude for me. This is definitely not a book to give to children to read. It pains me to write this review, but I will always give my honest opinion.

I was given a copy of this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest opinion.
Author: Laura Joffe Numeroff
Publisher: Andrews McMeel
Publication Date: 10 October 2017

What a wonderful addition to the series! Sometimes it's so much fun to poke fun at ourselves. This will definitely going to be in my house.

I best start off by saying that as I haven't read any of the children's books that this parody was based on, the parody element is completely lost on me, and therefore may affect my thoughts on this book. This is simply a woman's commentary on her husband's behaviours that irk her, and behaviours that no doubt many other wives and partners will recognise! This book is a collection of stereotypes of men from start to finish which some might take unkindly to, but it's done in a humour way and the illustrations are effective. As it's supposed to be a parody of a children's book, the layout reflects that really well. The only thing I never quite understand with these short picture books for adults, is what you do with them. You buy them, read them in seconds, and then what do you do with them?!

I loved the illustrations but the story didn't work for me. I get that this was a parody of the author's previous book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie but I didn't find it funny. I found the story clichéd and annoying. The man wants a cookie, then he wants milk, then he puts the empty milk container in the fridge, etc... I'm sure lots of people will love this book but it just wasn't for me.

I received an ARC from NetGalley (thank you so much to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the opportunity) in exchange for honest feedback.

We have Laura Numeroff's original children's books. We enjoy them. If you know those books, you'll appreciate this one. However, we'll pass on this tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek take on them. A one-time read.