Homeschool Friday - Cookies

Homeschool Friday is a feature here at Somewhere Only We Know that showcases books my family reads during homeschool and provides a mini-review/review for each.

Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons

By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Illustrated By: Jane Dyer

Publication: May 2, 2006 by HarperCollins

40 pages

Genre: Children, Picture Book, Parenting, Education

Source: Personal Library

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Description--Everyone knows cookies taste good, but these cookies also have something good to say. Open this delectable book to any page and you will find out something about life.

Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons is a new kind of dictionary, one that defines mysteries such as "fair" and "unfair" and what it really means to "cooperate."

The book is by turns clever, honest, inspirational, and whimsical. Go ahead, take a bite!

I've been doing a "unit study" on manners in our homeschool. Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons was recommended (although I can't remember where) to me. And my husband purchased it for me for Christmas. Guys! I was so impressed by this book. It packs such a punch in such a small package. This book tackles so many character traits, qualities, and good lessons in a way that children can easily understand. And hey, who doesn't want to read all about cookies? We've got: cooperate, patient, proud, modest, respect, trustworthy, fair, unfair, compassionate, greedy. generous, pessimistic, optimistic, polite, honest, courageous, envy, loyal, open-minded, regret, content, and wise. All of these things are defined using situations that involve cookies. For example: 

-Cooperate means, "How about you add the chips while I stir?

and 

-Respect means offering the very first cookie to your grandmother.

The last page of the book has a cookie recipe. We haven't tried it yet. But it's a wonderful opportunity to put some of these lessons into practice: take turns and cooperate, wait patiently for them to bake, offer the first cookie to the person most deserving of our respect, everyone gets the same number of cookies, sharing our cookies with others, viewing the amount we have as enough, being honest about how many cookies we've had, and not envying someone else's cookie that might look better than the ones we have, and we're not going to eat more than we should. 

I highly recommend Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons. You don't even have to be intentionally teaching your children about manners. Everyone needs to learn these lessons. And we can all relate to cookies, I think. Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons gets 5 Stars. Have you read Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons? What did you think? Let me know!