Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons

{{Short description|2006 children's book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal}}

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| author = Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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| illustrator = Jane Dyer

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| language = English

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| subject = Cookies
Life skills
Trait theory

| genre = Picture book

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| published = 2006 (HarperCollins)

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| isbn = 006058081X

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| oclc = 60557457

| dewey = 179/.9

| congress = BJ1595.R57 2006

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| followed_by = Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons

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{{Portal |Children's literature}}

Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons is a 2006 picture book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal intended to communicate life skills.{{sfn|Rose-Duckworth & Ramer|2008|p=200}} 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.{{Cite news|work=Publishers Weekly|title=Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-058081-0|access-date=July 25, 2015|archive-date=May 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530013127/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-058081-0|url-status=live}} The book uses situations relating to cookies as a pretext for defining a variety of traits.{{sfn|Fuhrken|2009|p=191}} Cookies is appropriate for children ages 4 to 8.{{Cite web|title=Children's Books on Manners|publisher=Association for Library Service to Children|url=http://www.ala.org/alsc/compubs/booklists/manners|access-date=July 25, 2015|archive-date=September 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913071900/http://www.ala.org/alsc/compubs/booklists/manners|url-status=live}} The book made The New York Times Best Seller list.{{Cite news|work=CBS News|title=Holiday Reads for Your Kids|date=December 5, 2009|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/holiday-reads-for-your-kids/|access-date=July 25, 2015|archive-date=November 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115103853/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/holiday-reads-for-your-kids/|url-status=live}} 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".{{sfn|Freeman|2007|p=6}} In 2008, Rosenthal and Dyer released a sequel called Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons.{{Cite news|work=The New York Times|title=Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons|author=Just, Julie|date=December 19, 2008|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/review/Bookshelf1-t.html?_r=1&|access-date=July 25, 2015|archive-date=April 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421212106/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/review/Bookshelf1-t.html?_r=1&|url-status=live}}