Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure [Hardcover]

Doreen Cronin (Author), Betsy Lewin (Illustrator)

Book Description

Animals awake beneath blue blankets

Clickety-clack!

The cows on Farmer Brown's farm are typing again. Duck can't wait to show everyone their latest note. Just what are they up to this time? Duck's not telling, but if you follow the alphabet one letter at a time, you'll find out. And you'll have as much fun as the animals are going to have, and learn your letters, too!

This alphabetical adventure for the very youngest fans of Duck brings alphabet books to a whole new level -- click, clack, quackity-quack!

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 2–The farmyard is aflutter as the cows that type return with new correspondence. Youngsters will soon realize that they invited all of their animal friends, including Duck, to a picnic. The alphabetical adventure begins as the Animals awake and ends 25 letters later with them peacefully snoring Zzzzzzzz…. In between there is plenty of fun as Duck pulls the Mice munching in a red wagon, Rain threatens, and X marks the picnic spot. Once again, this author-illustrator team works in perfect harmony to create a colorful and funny story with highly expressive animals. It's sure to delight Duck's many fans, and there's a distinct possibility that this adventure will have more appeal to preschoolers than the original story that inspired it.–Maura Bresnahan, High Plain Elementary School, Andover, MA
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From Booklist

PreS. The team that did the Caldecott Honor Book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (2000), and its sequel, Giggle, Giggle Quack (2002), use the same farmyard slapstick to tell a simple alphabet adventure. "Animals awake beneath blue blankets." Cows clickety clack on the old typewriter. Then there's "Duck dashing, eggs emptying . . . goats grooming, hens helping," and so on. What's going on? Suspense builds until "X marks the picnic spot," where the animals have fun, then yawn, and finally catch some Z's. Young preschoolers will learn the alphabet sounds as they act out the animal bedlam and point to the silly scenarios in the uproarious cartoons. Hazel Rochman
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 24 pages
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (September 27, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689877153
• ISBN-13: 978-0689877155
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 9.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Doreen Cronin is the successful author of many bestselling picture books, including Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure; Bounce; Wiggle; Duck for President; Giggle, Giggle, Quack; Dooby Dooby Moo; and the Caldecott Honor Book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not his favorite..., October 26, 2005

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Alyssa (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure (Hardcover)

My 3 1/2 year old loves all of the Duck stories, so when I found this ABC book I thought terrific! He was so excited when he opened the box and saw Duck on the cover. We sat down immediately to read the story and found there wasn't a story, just silly words for each letter. My son was extremely disappointed. I hope to get him interested in the letters and pictures, but he prefers Richard Scarry books for that, he was hoping for another Duck adventure.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's an ALPHABET book!!!!!!, November 16, 2006

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Mike Beri - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure (Hardcover)

Please keep this in mind as my son is way past learning his alphabet and this book was a great disappointment. No stories here, just a D for Duck, C for Cow, etc, from A-Z. I was going to give this review 3 stars but I should have paid more attention to the title. For what it is, it's a great book.

As a story book 0 Stars
As an alphabet book 5/5 Stars

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a fun way to learn the alphabet!, January 21, 2006

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littlenazz "littlenazz" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure (Hardcover)

My 16-month-old loves this book. Not only did it get him excited about the letters but also about going on a picnic. We read Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack together every night, and he knows that when the animals go to sleep at the end of the story, so does he! The other reviewer should take another look at this alphabetical adventure, since she seems to need some spelling guidance (it's NONSENSE...).