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Sugar Cookies:
Sweet Little Lessons on Love

Sugar Cookies: Sweet Little Lessons on Love by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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)

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