Laura Joffe Numeroff

Chaos might ensue if you were to give a dog a donut.

If you give a mouse a brownie, he's going to ask for some ice cream to go with it. When you give him the ice cream, he'll probably ask you for a spoon. He'll start drumming on the table. Drumming will get him so excited he ll want to start a band...

A series of increasingly far-fetched events might occur if someone were to give a cupcake to a cat.

When four young girls meet in dance class, it takes time for them to find a way--and a reason--to pull together as one, but Emily helps them realize that, just like a bag of jellybeans, they can be different and still go well together.

The Jelly Beans--four friends who like to do such different things as paint, play soccer, read, and dance--paint a mural on an outside wall of Mrs. Petunia Dinkley-Sneezer's candy shop that depicts them each doing what they love best.

Follows a boy and his mouse through a busy day at school.

The Chicken sisters drive a troublesome wolf home to his mother with their overwhelming eccentricities.

Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young boy's day.

"Join Mouse from 'If you give a mouse a cookie' as he celebrates Valentine's Day with all the friends he loves" -- p. [4] of cover.