All in Just One Cookie is a light hearted story that goes through all the ingredients Grandma uses to make her famous chocolate chip cookies. Page by page you can see the different places each ingredient comes from.
This story is a nonfiction picture book great for students in grades K-4. The information found in the story about where all the ingredients come from are factual and can help educate readers. This book also acts as a cookbook showing how much of each ingredient is used to make the chocolate chip cookies with the exact recipe at the end. The watercolor illustrations throughout the book show Grandma baking her cookies alongside her dog and cat. While Grandma is cooking the animals are busy searching for facts about each ingredient.
Activities:
After reading the book think of more ingredients to add to the cookies and look up facts about each one. You could look up more about peanut butter chips, oatmeal, nuts, or dried fruits. Help students look up these new ingredients on the computer and put together more pages to the book.
Teach students about all the different ways math can be used in the kitchen. Go over all the basic measurements that were used in the book like teaspoon, tablespoon, and cup. Bring in measuring tools so that kids can try to measure out ingredients in real life.
Reader Response Questions:
What type of plant does vanilla come from?
What animal do we need to make butter?
Can eggs be other colors besides white?
Who doesn't love cookies? I personally have been eating chocolate chip cookies for as long as I can remember! I love books that pull readers in by using an interesting topic and using that to teach something kids would otherwise not have ever thought about. This book was written by Susan E. Goodman who is known for writing over thirty nonfiction children's books. The book was illustrated by Timothy Bush who is known for his dulled watercolor pictures in many children's books.
More from Goodman:
How Do You Burp in Space?
On This Spot
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
Goodman, E., S. (2006). All in just one cookie. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers
An activity I would use with this book would be to have each child to bring in a cookie that they would make at home and have a cookie swap for each child to try. Another activity would be to ask the students what else they know how to make and write a recipe for it to share with the other students.
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