Horn Book (Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2019)

A cookie announces that it doesn't want to face the new day after suffering through the previous one (bad haircut, bad toothpaste, etc.). Upon concluding a recap, the cookie realizes that it doesn't have it so bad: "I guess you are still here, aren't you?" This funny-as-heck anger-management primer features a goofy-looking edible cast.

Kirkus Reviews

A baked good goes through a whole emotional experience in this fourth wall-busting picture book."Oooohhh, not you again!" gripes a redheaded, buck-toothed chocolate-chip cookie. "Close this book this very second, you nosy noodle!" And so it goes, as the cookie does its best to keep you, the reader, from proceeding. After a premature "The end," the cookie tries to get you to close the book, but of course persistent readers keep going. The cookie vents about its day, with trials and tribulations familiar to a young audience: no more strawberry toothpaste, an annoying friend, a bad haircut, and an ice cream shop that's run out of its favorite sundae. But toward the end the cookie realizes "why I'm so angry at the whole world. Because nobody listens to me. Nobody sticks around." But in fact the reader is still there, turning the cookie's mood around, showing that listening is an important way to support a friend having a bad day. Energetic, expressive, childlike art (with one shot of a gratuitous, giggle-inducing cookie butt) pairs well with the goofy-but-sincere plot, and it's sure to keep young audiences engaged. A host of other anthropomorphized foods and plants, including Barbra the recorder-playing cactus and a carrot that yells "Look at that cookie wearing the too-small hat," helps fill out the scenes. An entertaining approach to helping children work through their emotions. (Picture book. 4-7)

Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

An expressive cookie with arms, legs, and red scribbly hair (perhaps resembling a round potato) wakes up mad. He accusatorily addresses the reader: -Close this book this very second, you nosy noodle!- In the manner of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the cookie describes all that went wrong the day before. His roommate, a cactus, played an irritating song on her recorder; he got a bad haircut (and a hat too small to cover it); and the ice cream parlor ran out of his favorite flavor. Lamenting that -nobody listens to me. Nobody sticks around,- the cookie perks up when he realizes the reader is still there. The character-s direct engagement with its audience is good fun. Ages 3-7. (Mar.)