"You don't know how to make cookies," said Violet to her brother, Arthur.

"Yes, I do," said Arthur.  "I can make Christmas cookies for Mother and Father. And I will make a special one for you."

But cookies are not easy to make.  Wilma and Norman come over to watch—and talk, and fight and push! The dough falls on the floor, and, finally, when the cookies are done, there is something very wrong with them.  "I can't do anything right," cries Arthur.  But, suddenly, he cleverly turns his cookies into the perfect Christmas surprise for everyone.

Lillian Hoban's hilariously real story, and her affectionate pictures of four chimps in one kitchen, make Arthur's Christmas Cookies a treat for children all the year round.

From the dust jacket