If you give him a muffin, he' ll want some jam to go with it. If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. (Great read aloud, ages 4 to 8) -Emilie Coulter From the Back Cover:īook Description Library Binding. The moral of the story? Keep plenty of muffin mix and blackberry jam in your cupboard. Children will relate easily to the full-circle reasoning of the story, while picking up the concept of cause and effect. Through just a few deft words and brush strokes, the reader gets a real sense of the unique personalities of the two characters. What moose wouldn't want to borrow a sweater when it's cold outside? And why shouldn't the loose button on the sweater remind him of his grandmother? Bond's cleverly detailed, witty illustrations perfectly complement Numeroff's deadpan style. It all makes perfect sense, really, once you stop to think about it. Readers will follow a young boy and his voracious visitor through a series of antlered antics: jam reveries and puppet shows and big messes. The recipients said they thought that the requirement to work was reasonable, that they wanted to educate themselves and that they were optimistic about their chances to improve their earnings."If you give a moose a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it." So begins the most logical silliness to be found anywhere-at least since Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Haskins cited a study by a group of researchers who conducted interviews with 80 families receiving welfare in Philadelphia and Cleveland after the reform. Yet those receiving welfare did not seem to be opposed to the new program. Public assistance hadn't fundamentally changed the values of poor Americans. If it had, he argued, the increase in payrolls would have been less dramatic, as recipients would have resisted the government's efforts to make them work. For Haskins, now at the Brookings Institution, these figures show that welfare had not created a culture of dependency. A range of estimates produced by economists suggests that the country's welfare rolls were reduced by some 20 percent and that employment increased by about 4 percent as a result of the reform. The economy was doing well in those years, giving more people an opportunity to work, but economists believe that at least some of the increase was a result of the new law.
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