Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack

by Doreen Cronin

Hardcover, 2005

Call number

E C

Publication

Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2005), Edition: Illustrated, 24 pages

Description

An assortment of animals gathers for a picnic.

Subjects

Alphabet

Animals Fiction

Picnicking Fiction

User reviews

LibraryThing member mcegan

not much of a story, but the rare alphabet book that focuses on the lowercase letters you need to read

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LibraryThing member kdelker

Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack, An Alphabetical Adventure is a book about a picnic. Not just any picnic, but an animal picnic. The story starts with the cows typing out a message and ends with full tummies and a nap. A couple of words from each letter of the alphabet and cute pictures will draw you

in and make you want to join the picnic.

I love the pictures. The repetitive sounds and the alphabet make it fun. I enjoyed the humor and wanted to join the picnic myself. The pictures show a lot going on which is good for group discussion.

In class, I would have the children experience the “clackity- clack” of typing on a typewriter. They could find the letter that begins their name. We would have a picnic ourselves with foods that began with each letter of the alphabet. We might have to get creative. We would also make sentences with words beginning with the same letter.

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LibraryThing member adsessoms

This book is a good way for children to learn the alphabet by reading words that describe animals. This book has cute pictures that go along with the letters of the alphabet they are describing. The book flows and follows the alphabet, rather than the book having random words that start with the

letters of the alphabet. This book would be good for children learning their ABC's!

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LibraryThing member macfly_17

This is the cute story about duck typing a mysterious letter. The alphabetical characters/action takes you to the end of the story.

LibraryThing member claseliteratura

Great book to introduce the alphabet to students. Students will have fun with animals and at the same time they will learn their alphabet letters.

LibraryThing member LDB2009

This is a nice, average A-B-C book. The letters of the alphabet are sequenced through the storyline and the illustrations are kid-friendly. There is nothing special or memorable about the book although a young child would surely enjoy having it read to them.

LibraryThing member h_clark

I liked how this alphabet book had a plot to figure out. The reader wondered through the whole book what duck was up to. I also really liked how phrases, not just words were chosen for each letter (ie: Mice munching, nibbling nibbles).

LibraryThing member amycampbell

Farmer Brown's cows are typing again. They take the reader on a fun adventure through the alphabet telling what all of the animals on Farmer Brown's Farm are up to. It is full of wonderful alliteration.

LibraryThing member f_bennett

Summary: A book of the alphabet. It tells a letter of the alphabet and explains what letter a different animal is doing. After going through the entire alphabet, the animals then end up at a picnic and going to sleep.

Personal reaction: This is a great book for children who are just starting school

and are learning how to put words together.

Classroom extension ideas: 1. Students can make their own alphabet telling me what animal starts with what letter. 2. Students can also sit in a circle and as we go around the circle each child says the next letter and an object or something that starts with that letter.

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LibraryThing member lleighton05

Critique:
Genre: This story is a mix between fantasy and informational genres. It uses each letter of the alphabet to talk about the different animals at the farm and what they are doing. The animals talk and do human things that they could not do in real life.
Illustrations: The illustrations help

add to the story and move it along. For each letter of the alphabet, there is a picture that goes along with it. The pictures relate with the words and phrases that belong to each letter of the alphabet.
Media: Watercolo

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LibraryThing member MesserPicks

I love all of the books by Doreen Cronin. Two of my all time favorites are Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type and Diary of a Worm. I knew I would also enjoy this book and I was not let down. I really liked that this was an alphabet book that also told a story. Super cute!

LibraryThing member Day4

A very cute book about farm animals and the different alphabet letters they find. The pictures are simple, but fun.

LibraryThing member elizabethholloway

Like Doobey, Doobey, Moo, Cronin and Lewin tell a describe the adventures of farm animals, in this case, to introduce the letters of the alphabet. Not only does Cronin use the names of farm animals, but also alliteration and onomatopoeia create repetition of sounds that both reinforce the sound

concept and are fun to listen to, especially for very young readers. The illustrations portray the animals preparing and attending a picnic. The pictures portray the emotions and personality of the animals and have movement to enhance the pacing to the story. The letters are clear, but lower case--a more advanced concept than capital letters. This book is appropriate for children 2 to 5.

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LibraryThing member carriedold

alphabet book, usually 2 words per letter. Nonsense story.

LibraryThing member jaimefabey

A fun book book to learn letters with the popular typing cows and sassy duck from Cronin's serious. The read gets to go on a barnyard picnic and learn the alphabet.

LibraryThing member silly_tine

Animal illustrations throughout the book are engaging and often amusing, but too often they seem distracting and extraneous to the overall story. As an example, the G-J pages are a hodge-podge of action that seems only vaguely related to the picnic, and it culminates with a confusing depiction of

the Duck jumping over an inch-worm that seems to be jumping at the same time. The page carried by the duck disappears completely from R through W (6 pages), and by the time it is revealed at X its significance may have been forgotten by the reader.

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LibraryThing member cindasox

Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin, together with Farmer Brown and his animal friends, produce an alphabetical adventure as the story evolves from A to Z. Great onomatopoeic words to play with, humorous illustrations. Great book to share and read aloud. Rhythmic words.

LibraryThing member rachelsticka

Since this is an ABC concept book, children can learn their ABC's through farm animals. The illustrations conincide with the text, creating a definition for children along with their ABC's.

LibraryThing member Schuman

Very cute, each letter of the alphabet corresponds to the animals action, the cutest part is the end Z for zzzzzzzzzzzzzz sleeping animals. Illustrations are as always for a Cronin/Lewin book delightful! Great way to learn ABC's and verbs.

LibraryThing member Octokitten

A cute alphabetical adventure with the animals from the popular picture book Click, Clack, Moo that children familiar with the authors will enjoy. I thought the illustrations were charming and well suited to the text. I think alphabet books can often become tedious or too long, but this one is just

light enough that it's easy to get through and remains entertaining throughout. Kids who have read other stories by these authors will appreciate the familiar characters.

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LibraryThing member nicholew

I love this book. It is a great book to help teach ABC concepts. The duck is busy typing away and throughout there are words with alliteration.

LibraryThing member kathryn123

This book is about animals on a farm and what is going on from the beginning of the day to the end of the day. The author uses the alphabet to show what is going on through the entire day.

LibraryThing member alyssjo

In this alphabet concept book the reader sees what various animals on a farm do throughout the day. As each letter is introduced there is another animal or group of animals doing something different, until all of the animals attend a picnic together, get sleepy, and fall asleep. Making use of

alliteration, the authors introduce each letter by way of short, one to four word lines about the animals. Some pages contain more than one alphabet letter, but the book still does not exceed four words per page. Because of this, the book is paced very well. Young children being read to are not likely to get bored of the illustrations before the reader has finished reading the page. Similarly, the short text makes it possible to cover the entire alphabet in a short period of time, so young readers will not tire of the concept before finishing the story. The illustrations vary greatly. Sometimes an illustration will take up part of a page or one page and at other times the illustration will cover the entire spread. There are a plethora of colors used in the cartoon art-like drawings that depict animals doing human-like things: typing, carrying umbrellas, and having a picnic, to name a few. These sweet, lovable, silly animals are a great way to introduce children to the alphabet!

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LibraryThing member kellyknight01

This book follows a duck heading to a picnic, naming off animal actions alphabetically. It includes smaller pictures on a white background to ease following along with the letters of the alphabet. It also emphasizes the letter of the alphabet that is being focused on by enlarging and coloring the

letter.

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LibraryThing member matthewbloome

Not as good as the similarly constructed counting adventure, this was still a fun book and I enjoyed it.

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