The creators of Sugar Cookies offer a fresh batch of words and life lessons that bring to mind learning, school and knowledge presented within the context of baking everyone's favorite treat: cookies. 75,000 first printing for hardcover edition. - (Baker & Taylor)Presents vocabulary words and life lessons, with cookie-baking as the theme of the book. - (Baker & Taylor)
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of I Wish You More, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a touching batch of cookie-centric words and definitions to share.
Encourage the development of empathy, kindness, and perseverance while cuddling with your young reader around One Smart Cookie.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal's morsels of wisdom are paired with the delicious illustrations of mother-daughter duo Jane Dyer and Brooke Dyer. Definitions range from wanting to know everything about cookies (curious) to thinking carefully about what kind of cookies to make for your friend (ponder). This is a tasty vocabulary list that will resonate well beyond the school years.
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One Smart Cookie offers a fresh batch of words that encompasses everything you might say to a child, whether it's the first day of preschool or the last day of high school. Cookie-centric definitions range from wanting to know everything about cookies (curious) to thinking carefully about what kind of cookies to make for your friend (ponder). This book mixes Amy Krouse Rosenthal's morsels of wisdom with the delicious illustrations of mother-daughter duo Jane Dyer and Brooke Dyer. This is one vocabulary list that will resonate well beyond the school years.
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Booklist Reviews
"The fourth book in Rosenthal's "cookie" series offers a new set of delectable words and defines them with sensitivity to a child's experiences. In this imaginative, childlike world, "EMPATHY means, Your feelings somehow came into my feelings, and it feels to me like you could use a cookie right now." Clean, spacious design heightens the powerful charm of the watercolor illustrations, in which serious yet kindly dressed animals share the domestic scenes with children. A treat to be pondered and savored, the book closes with a recipe for "One Smart Cookie," a Smarties-laden sugar cookie." Copyright 2010 Booklist Reviews.
Horn Book Guide Reviews
Each page features a vocabulary word that is defined in terms of how it relates to cookies ("PROMPT means, When it's time to make cookies, we are here and ready on the dot!"). Like others in this series, the sweet-treat hook makes for a kid-friendly vocabulary lesson. The eye-pleasing scenes show rosy-cheeked tots interacting with animals dressed like children. Copyright 2010 Horn Book Guide Reviews.
School Library Journal Reviews
Gr 1–2—Who wants chocolate "all-chip-in" cookies? This book uses sweet confections to explore creative ways to approach a challenge, think of others, and work hard. A brief illustrated glossary serves up a batch of essential life lessons through the collaborative activity of making cookies. The words themselves aren't always simple—e.g., "prompt," "organized," "prepared," "compromise," "empathy," "integrity"—but the explanations hit close to the heart and simplify the definition for younger readers. "CONTRIBUTE means you don't just sit back while everyone else makes the cookies; each of us is doing our part and adding something good." Old-fashioned images in bright watercolor illustrations invite readers to look twice: first at the charm of each cookie-baking vignette, and secondly at the detail given children and their animal friends joining in humanlike roles and dress. Cookies tie together the theme of the book; the making of them adds to the sweetness of the message.—Mary Elam, Learning Media Services Plano ISD, TX
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