Line #24 Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''What do you think will happen next?'']]
3	->''"If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk."''
4	--> -- ''If You Give a Mouse a Cookie''
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6	''If You Give a Mouse a Cookie'' is a 1985 children's picture book written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond. Each page has a large, colorful picture and short sentence telling the story of a (nameless yet eponymous) mouse and an equally nameless boy. The story starts, naturally, with the boy [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin giving the mouse a cookie]]. The story goes on from there, with the mouse needing a new item on each page. It ends up with the mouse, once again, wanting a cookie.
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8	The many, many sequels (''If You Give a Moose a Muffin'', ''If You Give a Pig a Pancake'', ''If You Give a Bear a Brownie'', ''If You Give a Cat a Cupcake'', ''If You Give a Dog a Donut'', ''If You Give a Mouse a Brownie'') all [[SameStoryDifferentNames follow approximately the same plot]], with variations on the animal and food item.
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10	In 2015, [[WesternAnimation/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie an animated special]] based on the original book was released on Creator/PrimeVideo. A full television series followed, which premiered on November 7, 2017 as a production with Canada's Creator/MercuryFilmworks.
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12	A narrated version of the original story was also featured on an episode of ''Series/ReadingRainbow'' in 1993.
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15	!! This book contains examples of:
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17	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All but the first book alliterated the animal with the food, with the exception of ''If You Give a Mouse a Brownie'', which featured the return of the original animal, the mouse.
18	* AscendedExtra: Cat and Dog were among the animals in ''If You Give a Pig a Party'', and would eventually receive books of their own.
19	* ChristmasSpecial: The original book series has ''If You Take a Mouse to the Movies'' as this, with the food item being popcorn with a popcorn string kit.
20	* CreatorCameo: The girl in Pig's books is based on the Illustrator, Felicia Bond.
21	* ADogNamedDog: Every animal character is this -- Mouse, Dog, Cat, Pig, and Moose.
22	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The book is about a mouse who wants a cookie.
23	* HardTruthAesop: The series revolves around a CentralTheme of [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished how generosity breeds dependency]], and that boundaries need to be drawn so that it never escalates to that point.
24	* HereWeGoAgain: The last page has the mouse, once again, wanting a cookie (to go with his glass of milk). In the animated series, it's something of a [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase.]]
25	* {{Irony}}: Mouse doesn't like cheese.
26	* NamelessNarrative: The human characters in the book don't have names given. However, in the AnimatedAdaptation, they are NamedByTheAdaptation. The boy with the mouse is Oliver and the other human characters have names as well. The boy Moose lives with is named Leo, the girl Pig lives with is named Piper, the girl Cat lives with is named Esme Louise, and the boy Dog lives with is named Henry.
27	* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: In ''If You Give a Pig a Pancake'', the pig builds an entire treehouse in less than a day with scrap lumber from the girl's toolshed.
28	* SecondPersonNarration: The original books are all told in second person, with the boy [[NamedByTheAdaptation who would become Oliver]] being a reader stand-in.
29	* SerialEscalation: With each item the animal of the story receives, they end up wanting something else, often with the reasons getting crazier as they can go from wanting pancakes to moving into a treehouse.
30	* StockAnimalDiet: Averted. This mouse eats cookies -- with milk, of course -- and brownies with ice cream. The other animals aren't any more stock diet in their tastes.
31	* TalkingAnimal: The eponymous mouse and other characters in the spin-off books. Same for the animated series, though perhaps moving up a bit on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism.

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