If+You+Give+A+Cat+a+Cupcake

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Bibliographical Data
Title: If You Give A Cat A Cupcake Author: Laura Numeroff Illustrator: Felicia Bond Publisher: HarperCollins; 1 edition (September 30, 2008) Hardcover: 32 pages ISBN: 978-0-06-192157-5 Reading Level: 4-8 years

Author Biography
Laura Numeroff grew up in Brooklyn, with her mother, father and two older sisters. Her house was filled with books, art, music and folk dancing. She attended Pratt Institute and graduated with a degree in communications and a contract for her first children's book, Amy For Short, published in 1975 by Macmillan.A New York Times best-selling children's book author, Laura is best known for the series based on her book If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, first printed in 1985. The fourth book in the series, If You Take A Mouse To The Movies was on the New York Times Children's Best Seller list for five months, nine weeks at number one. Other books she wrote includes If You Give A Pig A Pancake, Dogs Don't wear Glasses, and The Chicken Sisters. She has also visited over 100 elementary schools and has been a speaker at teacher conferences around the country. She now lives in Los Angeles, Ca.

Summary
A girl gives a cat a cupcake, but the cat wants sprinkles on the cupcake. Once the girl gives the cat sprinkles, it all goes downhill from there in a series of events that take the girl on quite an adventure. These adventures consist of cleaning up sprinkles, going to the beach, going to the gym, and rowing. Each event is triggered by a previous action or activity, such as riding a merry-go-round with a whale that reminds the cat of the science museum. Now he asks the girl if she will take him there to see the dinosaurs.At the end of all these adventures the cat is again reminded of the cupcake and sprinkles and we all know what happens when you give a cat a cupcake.

Book Review
This is a great read for school aged children. I had no idea how much trouble a cat could put a person through. He takes this girl on a series of adventures where one thing leads to the next. The cat is given qualities that a person would have and goes goes places where some on would go. I like how after they go through all these events it ends up back at the cupcake and sprinkles. I think is a cute book filled with curiosity as to what will happen next. Putting the cat in a bathing suit made him want to go to the beach and so on. It kept me wondering and laughing through each page.

Literary Element Analysis
The illustrations in this book help to tell the story. Every page depicts the next event in the story and helps the reader visualize the cat being personified. The pages only have a few short words on them, but the illustration are detailed and are able to tell the story line in an effective way.This book would be useful for a struggling reader. They would be able to use the illustrations as a guide to reading the words. When the girl and the cat are at the museum, after their merry-go-round ride, they visit the hall of dinosaurs. The illustrations is a detailed representation of large dinosaurs and include a variety of species like an exhibit would. This picture is very colorful and eye catching. It also shows the size of the cat relative to the dinosaurs. On the next page they visit the hall of apes. In this illustration there are about seven apes swinging from trees. The look fun and energetic. There is even a mother ape in the illustration. Then is shows the girl watching the cat and the cat playing with the apes. The picture can be useful in predicting what the cat might ask for next. The story also uses alliteration and repetition in the writing. The writing is not always the most significant aspect to a book. The illustrations can provide support and contextual clues.