Customer Reviews

Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure

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3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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

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...).

"The cows on Farmer Brown's farm are typing again," proclaims the liner notes to Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack. And indeed, there they are right on the C-page, Clickety-clacking on the typewriter. A duck grabs a page from the cows and totes it along in his beak. By the M-page, he's also pulling a bright red wagon with a blanket-covered basket inside. Other animal friends join the wagon-wielding, page-toting duck as he runs along. Where is everyone going? The destination is finally revealed at W, where we see a picnic blanket crowded with fruits, a pitcher of lemonade and that picnic staple we all love - Watermelons! X - Y - Z brings the book to a satisfying close: X marks the picnic spot, Y-awns erupt among the picnicked-out animals, and then Z-zzzzzzzzz....

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.

For children who eagerly anticipate the ongoing adventures of Farmer Brown's cows and know to expect that their typewritten page will play an important part in the story, this book should be a satisfying adventure. Those who have never ventured to Farmer Brown's farm should probably start with an earlier adventure in the series.

My three-year-old granddaughter giggles every time she plays with this. I like that all the pieces stay in one place! It's neat that it involves letter recognition but it's not the best method for teaching that.

When I ordered this book, I did not do a lot of research. I enjoy this series of books and figured its another book for my nephews collection. My nephew is 1 years old so I know I needed to find a "board book" but what I did not know was this book came with sounds! I was so excited to see my nephews face as he figured out that it made sounds too! It was a fantastic buy! (the sounds are a bit repetitious but its very cute for young ones!)

Ms. Cronin always delights little readers and listeners as well as adults and this book does not disappoint anyone. Wonderful!

I bought this through my son's pre-school's book flyer from publisher, so I didn't realize that it wasn't part of the series but just an alphabet book, and a boring one at that. Maybe if he was really into the characters from the other books he would like this.

I'd suggest the original Click Clack Moo instead if you want a story.

Or if you want an alphabet book, Richard Scarry's Car book from A to Z is fun pictures, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is sing-songy, Bruno Munari's ABC if you want beautiful drawings.

I purchased this book for my five year old grandson. He amazed me by clicking the letters for the pictures so quickly. He loves the boks and goes through it over and over. It is fun for him and at the same time he is learning. I recommend this to anyone who wants to light up a little ones eyes.

This is a fun, delightful book as this series always is. I don't know how useful the fake keyboard is, but children will maybe have fun matching the letters in the book to the ones on the keyboard. Cronin and Lewin have a winning combination with Cronin's clever writing and Lewin's hilarious illustrations. I am a retired children's librarian and I look for good quality children's literature for my grandchildren.