Sugar Cookies:
Sweet Little Lessons on Love
by Amy Krouse
Rosenthal
Drawings by Jane Dyer and Brooke Dyer
Through beautiful
illustrations and well-chosen definitions featuring all aspects of the
sugar cookie, SUGAR COOKIES: SWEET LITTLE LESSONS ON LOVE tells the
story of human relationships using sugar cookies as a means to
illustrate feelings. Vocabulary words such as compassion, forgive
and requited become easily understandable. Illustrations feature
adorable animals, children and family scenes, particularly but not
exclusively kitchen baking and eating scenes. SUGAR
COOKIES: SWEET LITTLE LESSONS ON LOVE combines educational purpose with
values of concepts as compassion, supportive love and unconditional
love with the sheer fun of activity and feelings. The
book closes with a recipe for sugar cookies which could be used as a
fun post-reading activity for families, and supervised children's group
activities. SUGAR COOKIES: SWEET LITTLE LESSONS ON
LOVE teaches values suitable for a wide variety of church groups.
The underlying message is not keyed to any specific religion or
denomination, but rather touches on universal values. For
that reason, this book would be an excellent resource for children's
groups such as schools and libraries in which participants come from a
variety of religious backgrounds.
SUGAR COOKIES: SWEET LITTLE LESSONS ON LOVE would be an excellent
resource for parents or grandparents to talk with their children about
the relationship between parent and child or as a gift for birthdays,
Valentine's Day, other special occasions or as a cheer-up gift. SUGAR
COOKIES: SWEET LITTLE LESSONS ON LOVE would also make an excellent
choice for divorced, widowed or other single parents to share with
children as a way of to reaffirm parental love. SUGAR
COOKIES: SWEET LITTLE LESSONS ON LOVE would also make a fun, loving
gift
for a child to give to a parent or grandparent. Above all, SUGAR
COOKIES: SWEET LITTLE LESSONS ON LOVE is a book meant to be shared,
read aloud. The illustrations are colorful and big enough to be
enjoyed close up and in a group.
Publisher: HarperCollins (October 27,
2009)
Reviewed by Merrimon,
Merrimon Book Reviews
