Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons is a 2006 picture book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal intended to communicate life skills.[1]Jane Dyer, who had previously illustrated Mem Fox's Time for Bed, illustrated Cookies with watercolor paintings of scenes such as picnics and old-fashioned kitchens.[2] The book uses situations relating to cookies as a pretext for defining a variety of traits.[3]Cookies is appropriate for children ages 4 to 8.[4] The book made The New York Times Best Seller list.[5] In The Winners! Handbook: A Closer Look at Judy Freeman's Top-rated Children's Books of 2006, Freeman describes Cookies as "old-fashioned sweet, without being cloying or didactic".[6] In 2008, Rosenthal and Dyer released a sequel called Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons.[7]
Freeman, Judy (2007). The Winners! Handbook: A Closer Look at Judy Freeman's Top-rated Children's Books of 2006. ABC-CLIO. ISBN978-1591585107.
Fuhrken, Charles (2009). What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know about Reading Tests (from Someone who Has Written Them). Stenhouse Publishers. ISBN978-1571107640.
Rose-Duckworth, Roxann; Karin Ramer (2008). Fostering Learner Independence: An Essential Guide for K-6 Educators. Sage Publications. ISBN978-1412966078.
