If You Give a Man a Cookie A parody by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Brian Ajhar

I received If You Give a Man a Cookie A parody by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Brian Ajhar this Thursday in a warm envelope, handwritten and containing also a card written by the publicist. How precious it was! Many thanks! I adored it so badly.

If you Give a Man a Cookie is a hilarious parody. It can be read according to my point of view in a "dirty" way and in a cleaned way. It's up to you, but both the ways are funny!

You can present the book at your partner for laughing and smiling of his existential condition and crisis to my point of view if he is a funny man! (The man portrayed in the book is very pacific.)

You can also try with your kid. Then of course he/she would discover the real nature of men and their dynamics. You would explain a lot of facts. Maturity, changes, identity...You would end up with some philosophic thoughts, while your kid would think: "Oh no, God will I experience all of it?" ending up in a little 4-5 years old existential crisis ;-) in which all his securities will become terrible fears for a very remote future. Because story repeat itself we know it so badly.
Surely this one is an illustrated book for women!

The story is simple: there is a man in his 50s, a bit fat, a bit in love for cookies the specialties of his wife and milk (you know that there is nothing more good than sweet chocolate cookies with some milk) and trying to prove to himself he is always the best. Surely he is into a sort of existential crisis. He likes to exercises just for some seconds before to return to spend some time on the coach watching the TV and in the time falling asleep.  In general he is an innocuous man.

The life of his wife is pretty busy cleaning the house, cooking and baking, and trying to keep under control this husband pretty lazy under certain aspects, but plenty of desires for some cookies :-) and a lot of milk :-))
At the end of the book you will laugh a lot I am sure of it!

I loved the wonderful illustrations, portraying a man in crisis and in search again of an identity, the part of the hair is spectacular, but, you won't never forget the last illustration of the sardonic dog thinking: "Man you lost your battle, I am still here in the bed with your wife sleeping in your pillow while you must go somewhere else in the house to get the milk by yourself."

Oh, read it, you will love it!


I surely thank Andrews McMeel Publishing for this eBook I also thank Shelf Awareness because thanks to them I discovered this publishing house.


Anna Maria Polidori