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Olga D’Agostino (known as Mrs. D.) is an award-winning children’s author (recipient of multiple Mom’s Choice Awards, Beverly Hills Book Awards, and International Readers’ Favorite Awards). She lived and worked in Lviv, a cultural center in western Ukraine, before immigrating to the United States in 1992. In 2012 she published her first children’s book, and since then she’s pursued a career as a writer, focusing on writing children’s books that have meaning and provide valuable lessons. She speaks many languages, loves reading, writing, gardening, and traveling.
Her award-winning illustrated children’s books include The Trees Have Hearts, Good Morning, World!, The City Kittens and the Old House Cat, Runaway Clothes, and The Royal Palm.
Award-winning: A Taste of Bread and The little Girl Praying on the Hill.
Published children's books:
The Trees Have Hearts, The City Kittens and the Old House Cat, Good Morning, World!, Runaway Clothes, Runaway Clothes: Coloring and Activity Book for Kids, The Royal Palm, The Little Girl Praying on the Hill, A Taste of Bread, Somewhere Between Two Worlds, The Cat Who Wandered by Itself, Mysterious Life Inside a Closet, That Is How Things Are, Who Let the Cookies Out?, and Who Let the Cookies Out?: Coloring & Activity Kids Book, Baby from the Moon, three rhyming stories in Who Is Most Important in the Fridge?, and Who Is Most Important in the Fridge: Coloring Book for Kids, and Carlo the Mouse Series, Books 1, 2,3 4,5 and 6, and Carlo the Mouse: Coloring Books 1 and 2.
Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite
Who Let The Cookies Out? (Grandma's Cookies Stories Book 1) by Mrs. D. is a delicious story where readers meet Grandma who wanted to make holiday cookies to surprise her grandson's pre-K class and make his classmates happy. She made the first batch of butter cookies and she placed them on a plate to cool and went on with her next batch. Grandma was pleased with her first batch and decided to use the same ingredients. She added a vanilla liquid to the dough and that made the cookies smell really good. She kept them next to the butter cookies, but the vanilla cookies thought they were better than the butter ones. The third batch of cookies had a little hole so that they could put a string through it and use it as a decoration for their Christmas tree. Grandma was pleased with her third batch and she added some crumbled mint chips to the fourth batch. The cookies came out green and they thought they were the best looking cookies in the world. Each batch thought they were the best, and Grandma went on to make glazed cookies for the fifth batch. What happens when Grandma folds a handful of nuts into her dough?
The story is a fun read and the nutty behavior of the nut cookies will bring a smile to the faces of young readers. The illustrations by Chanoa are as adorable as the batches of cookies and give life to the story and its characters, making them tangible to readers. The recipe to make cookies can be tried out at home with the help of parents. The underlying message of the story is relevant and relatable. It will make young readers realize how a few nuts can spoil the batch, though the rest of the ingredients used are the same. It is a good storybook for bedtime storytelling and can be used in classrooms for reading aloud and storytelling sessions.
