Individual shares of a large platter of cookies get smaller and smaller as successive groups of neighbor children enter the kitchen needing a snack. Each double page spread cleverly places the door just off the right-hand edge of the page, so that the reader's attention is drawn to it. (Age 3-6)

Ma has made a dozen delicious cookies. It should be plenty for her two children. But then the doorbell rings -- and rings and rings.Each ring of the doorbell brings more friends to share the delicious cookies Ma has made."Refreshing, enjoyable and unpredictable." -- School Library Journal.

Also available in a Spanish-language edition, Llaman a la puerta.