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What child can resist sweets?

I have two sweet-treat-themed books to share about today! (As if you aren’t already swamped with holiday sweets at your house! But….these treats are just to read about, not eat!)

The first is another book in the ever-popular series of “If You Give a….” books by Laura Numeroff & Felicia Bond. If You Give a Cat a Cupcake is just as full of rolicking fun as the other titles they’ve debuted….and for some reason, children can’t resist these stories. (I know mine can’t.) If it’s not the words, it’s the silly pictures that get my two little ones giggling….even my harder-to-impress-with-books 4-year-old son! It’s truly one of his top favorites now, and he loves to hear it again and again. The storyline, like in the other titles, comes full circle, and creates one crazy adventure….the cat even visits a gym to workout….a silly, ludicrous activity that the kids found hilarious. It helps that the cat resembles our own resident feline.

Browse inside to see how fun this book is!:

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To go along with this book are some fun, free teaching materials and an online matching game!

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake retails for $16.99 and can be found at most any brick-and-mortar bookstore or online bookseller.

The second book is quite a treasure: Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. It’s a friendly, child-centric dictionary of morals, of sorts. This book, with sweet, huggable children and dressed-up animals, teaches in a tangible way (with cookies, of course) how to share, how to be a friend, how to look at a glass half-full.

I found myself feeling as if I was stepping back into the first half of the century when I looked at these drawings and surveyed the overall vintage look of this volume. This is not only a book of virtues, it’s an heirloom.

This one should truly be seen to be understood:

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This pretty, pretty book retails for $12.99. (For a link to online sellers, again, click here.)

Win it! I have a great giveaway lined up today for these titles….
THREE of you will win a copy of If You Give a Cat a Cupcake and ONE of you will win a copy of Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons.

What do you do? Just tell me in a comment which title you’d rather win for your children’s bookshelf and WHY. I will close the contest next Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 11pm EST. One comment only; duplicate commenters will be disqualified. US entries only. GOOD LUCK!

*** More chances to win!! Run over to HarperCollins Children’s for a chance to win one of 10 holiday book prize packs! Hurry; contest ends January 10, 2009. ***

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I homeschool my 6yo daughter and she loves to read new books. She would enjoy reading If You Give a Cat a Cupcake and playing the online matching game. I would enjoy the teaching materials.

I think “If You Give A Cat A Cupcake” sounds really cute. Josiah loves kitty-cats and that cat looks like one of our cats as well. The fact that the story includes sweets is always a plus.

Both of these books look cute, but my favorite would be If You Give a Cat a Cupcake. We have If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and my son loves it, so I’m sure he’d enjoy this one too. How fun that they have an online game!

id never heard of the “if you give a cat a cookie” id only heard of the mouse one. id love to read it to my niece. thanks for the giveaway!

I would like to win If you give a cat a cookie for my niece. I used to like the story If you give a mouse a cookie. Thanks!

I think my kids would enjoy both, but I like the cookie book more because it teaches lessons on sharing in a fun way.

‘If you give a cat a cupcake’ would be our choice! Love ‘If you give a mouse a cookie’, so this one looks perfect!

These are really cute books. I would love to give the cat a cookie to my grandson. He loves to look at books.

We’re huge fans of the “If you give…” books here – and my oldest daughter loves cats as well. I’d love to win a copy of this newest book for her!

I’d love to be entered for the if you give a cat a cupcake! It looks so adorable and my niece would love it since she loves all other ones, her favorite is if you give a mouse a cookie, she even has a little stuffed animal of the mouse. Thanks for entering me!

I would love to win either one for my kids. I like that “If you give a cat a cupcake” is fun and will make my little ones laugh and that “Bite-Size Life Lessons” teaches morals. Both sound great!

What wonderful books. I adore children’s books. The illustrations in the “Bite-Size
Life Lessons are beautiful. Please add my name in this book drawing. Wonderful keepsake book. Many thanks, Cindi

I’d love the cupcake book for my niece. She has all the other books and loves them. Her favorite right now is If you take a mouse to the movies.

My daughters both have loved the If you give line of books, I’d love to win If You Give a Cat a Cupcake because I know it would be loved for sure!

I’d love to win either – but my son loves animals so “If you give a cat a cupcake” would be my first choice. Thanks!

I’d prefer the Bite Size Life Lessons. It would be a great gift for my neice.

If you Give a Cat a Cupcake because my kids love her other books that we own and we saw this book at the bookstore recently and they really wanted it.

I think my daughter would enjoy “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake”. She loves animals, and she loves silly stories.

I love the “If you give” books!! I didn’t know that there was a new one!! I would love to win..
Heather S.

i would like the if you give a cat a cookie for my niece because i don’t think she has that book yet.

I would like to win If you Give a Cat a Cupcake, why? Well because the whole “if you give a…” line is fantastic. It’s books I loved as a kid and throughly enjoy reading with my children. I love that they love the same books I did as a kid and I get a walk down memory lane with each story
Thanks for the entry
tonyamcrain [at] aol [dot] com

I would like to win If You Give a Cat a Cupcake because my kids love the Laura Numeroff books.
akreese (at) hotmail (dot) com

I think my kids would enjoy “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake.” They have a few of her other books & adore them

Both books would be well loved and read by my girls, if I have to pick one then the “If you give a cat a cupcake” since they love the orginal Mouse/Cookie one

The Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons would be great to share with my Nanababies, they love animals and oc course cookies and they would learn too!

Both books look wonderful. I would choose “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake” only because we have the others in the series and they are very popular at our house.

Thanks for a great giveaway!

I think “Cookies” would be a perfect book for my children. I think it’s important to have books in our collection that talk about sharing and caring, and looking at things as “the glass is half full.”

Thank you very much for entering me in your giveaway! My kids would love to have either book.

I would like to win “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake” because we have all of the other ones!

My daughter loves the “If You…” Books – and she loves cupcakes, so that is perfect!

My daughter would love If You Gave a Cat a Cupcake! We’re big cat fans here, so I know she’d like it!

I would like to win If You Give a Cat a Cupcake for my 3 year old twin boys. They love to read books and have really enjoyed others in this series. Thanks for the chance to win!

I’d prefer to win Give a cat a cupcake! My son loves cats and cupcakes and has just turned 4 and we can’t buy books quickly enough for him at the moment!
thanks for teh giveaway.
However, if I am chose for the Cookies book, that would be most welcomed as well.

Well, I don’t currently have any children myself, so if I can still enter I’d love If You Give a Cat a Cupcake! It sounds adorable and when I was younger, I used to LOVE If you Give a Mouse a Cookie!

-Lauren
lauren51990 AT aol DOT com

i would love to read If You Give a Cat a Cupcake to my son. Its fun to see how one thing leads to another.

I would love the Cookies: Bite Size Life Lessons.

i would love the book if you give a cat a cupcake, we have 3 cats and my daughter would absolutly get a kick out of this book.
mommy2skie@yahoo.com

I would love If You Give a Cat a Cupcake.
My sons favorite book is if you give a mouse a cookie I know he would fall in love with this too

“If You Give a Cat a Cupcake” because my daughter loves cats and I think the corresponding online teaching materials is a neat idea!

rawlove(at)hotmail.de

I’d love to win Cookies. I taech kindergarten and I LOVE slipping life lessons into story time! This book looks great!

I read the earlier books in the series to my youngest two daughters. My oldest daughter now has children of her own, and I would love to win this book and give it to my grandchildren. We all have the love of reading, and this book would encourage that. Thanks for hosting the giveaway.

I’d love to win If You Give a Cat a Cupcake because it’s from such a classic series.

These books both look great! But since we haven’t read “Cookies” yet, I’d prefer that one…it looks like something my children would truly enjoy!

We’d love If you Give a Cat a Cupcake! We’ve read several others in the series and love them. This would be a great new read! Thanks for the chance to enter!

I would love the If you gave a cat a cupcake book – my son loves our cat, and would love this!

I would like the Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons. I would like the life lessons.

I’d love to win a copy of “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake” – we’ve got “If you give a mouse a cookie”, so this would be fun to have, too!

I’d love to have “If you Give a Cat a Cupcake.” We have several of the earlier books in the series — and they are fantastic.

rsgrandinetti@yahoo.com

Either sounds fantastic, but my first choice would be the Cookies – Bite Sized life lessons…sounds right up our alley!

I’d LOVE to win If You Give a Cat a Cupcake! I really enjoy Laura Joffe Numeroff’s books, and they are wonderful for teaching cause and effect to children! Thanks for the great giveaway!

I’d pick “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake” because we have “If You Give a Moose a Muffin” and my son loves it!
Thanks for the giveaway!
~Jenny~

We have six kitties and we love to bake cupcakes… guess which book appeals most to us?!

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