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PreS-Gr 1—This multicultural twist on the classic "Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?" looks at the many hands from across the globe that contribute to the making of just one cookie. Paschkis's rich folk-art illustrations show a factory worker making a cookie sheet and indigenous farmers harvesting s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Instead of asking, as the children's singing game does, "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?" Shannon's title wonders how the cookies got there in the first place. Text and distinctive folk art tell a cookie's backstory, focusing on all the many hands involved in making it. "Hands that feed and milk the cow. / Churn the butter. Guide the plow."...Log In or Sign Up to Read More