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. 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.When it came time for Numeroff to apply for college, she decided not to study writing. 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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