These stories use a circular story format, presenting to the reader a chain of events. It was rejected by publishers nine times before it was finally accepted by Harper. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, published in 1985 and illustrated by Felicia Bond, was the book that launched the hit If You Give.
Numeroff resides in Los Angeles, California. Numeroff's books have been published in many languages. Her autobiography, If You Give an Author a Pencil, was published in 2003 it is written at a second grade reading level so that it is also accessible to children. When asked about her earlier endeavors into illustrations during an interview, she mentioned that though she loves drawing, she decided her "strength was in writing and not in illustration" and said "I don't think I would illustrate a whole book anymore at this point". Since her editor chose Felicia Bond to illustrate Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie book, she has not illustrated another book. When Numeroff began her career she served as her own illustrator her first 9 books were both written and illustrated by Numeroff herself. Numeroff has worked with numerous illustrators including Lynn Munsinger, David McPhail, Tim Bowers, Nate Evans, Joe Mathieu, Sal Murdocca, Sharleen Collicott, and Felicia Bond Felicia Bond is the illustrator of the If You Give.
A homework assignment for one of these classes prompted Numeroff to write the story Amy for Short, and in 1975 the story was published by Macmillan Publishing, launching Laura Joffe Numeroff's writing career. Eventually, however, Numeroff decided that fashion "wasn't for me", returned to her childhood dream of becoming a writer, and began taking writing classes. Instead, she followed her sister's footsteps and majored in fashion. When it came time for Numeroff to apply for college, she decided not to study writing.
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