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Mar 15, 2017forbesrachel rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
What do you do when you have three cookies, and four friends? How do you ensure fairness? These are the questions that Santat explores in his hilarious new easy reader, the Cookie Fiasco. Purple hippo, green crocodile, brown monkey, and blue squirrel, quickly fall into exaggerated despair, throwing out bad ideas on how to solve the problem. All the while, the nervous Hippo is unconsciously breaking each cookie into smaller bits; first three becomes six, then six becomes twelve. This resolves their trouble, but Santat can't resist ending the story with an amusing hint at the next problem that is coming their way. The Cookie Fiasco is part of the Mo Willems Elephant and Piggie Like Reading imprint; fans of Elephant and Piggie will enjoy this title for its dialogue based humour, and silly art (although these are slightly different from Willems' style), as well as the smartly delivered lesson. Fans of Dan Santat's picture books, will also love this title; the illustrations are done in his distinctive, comic inspired, colourful cartoony style, and the humour has the same boldness that we have come to love and expect from him.