Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal offers great illustrations and a warm “feel-good” story that most children (and adults) would enjoy. Cookies introduces a vocabulary list of words not typically found in most children’s books. The story follows several children as they are baking chocolate chip cookies, and along the way they learn several life lessons. Cookies educates children on ideas such as cooperate, trustworthy, and fair. Along with the words are examples of each one, in language that most children can identify with. I think this book would be an excellent choice for a parent to read to their child, and for a teacher to read to the classroom. This book would serve as an effective tool to use as a teacher if negative classroom behaviors become an issue. I’ve not seen too many children’s books that focus directly on teaching life lessons, and I’m curious about Rosenthal writing another story with the same focus but for an older audience.
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