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Summary: Duck Was a Neutral Party
Review: The cows on Farmer Brown's farm have discovered a typewriter. Soon, they're leaving notes for him demanding blankets to keep warm. But when he refuses to give in, they go on strike. Can a solution be found to return the cows to work?This book is loads of fun. Read with the right seriousness, even adults will burst out laughing. Young kids will love the silly story line and wonderful illustrations. This is a fun book that will become a bedtime favorite. Get it for your kids today. You'll both be glad you did.
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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: My girls love this book - my mom found our first copy at a book fair. Since then, we've read this book dozens of times and it's our favorite to give as a gift to friends who are having birthdays. There's another book, called Giggle, Giggle, Quack, featuring Duck. It's a wonderful compliment to Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type. Doreen Cronin is an excellent author and the illustrator, Betsy Lewin, has done a wonderful job with her illustrations. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a cute, yet very interesting, story.
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Summary: Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
Review: Understatement is not lost on children. Neither is subtlety (though you probably wouldn't know it when a 2-year old has decided to tell you "the funniest knock knock joke ever"). The creation of an effective picture book for small children has a variety of different tacks it can take, subtle being the most difficult. But "Click, Clack, Moo", is beyond sublime, and it gets away with it too. In it, author Doreen Cronin and illustrator Betsy Lewin have penned a delightful story about some dexterous cows with simple demands. In this tale, Farmer Brown's cows have gotten ahold of a typewriter. Now equipped with the means with which they can express themselves, the cows demand electric blankets forthwith. Farmer Brown demurs (by throwing a small fit) so the cows join up with the chickens in demanding blankets for the chickens as well. In the end, a solution is reached and all parties are satisfied with the outcome. There is a single moment in this book that was, to me, the height of sophistication. After hearing the cows demands, Farmer Brown types up a letter of refusal. We next see a two-page spread of the long road to the barn. A white duck, oversized letter in beak and a left foot poised in the air, walks alone. The text reads, "Duck was a neutral party, so he brought the ultimatum to the cows". I love using the term neutral party in a picture book. I love that extravagant and elaborate word "ultimatum" bandied about a barnyard tale. Every children's book should be so lucky as to have a moment such as this. Honestly, though I enjoyed the pictures I was not overwhelmed by them. Betsy Levin's style is a simple watercolor utilizing thick black lines and wide open-eyed expressions. That's all well and good, but in some ways I wanted to see something a little more interesting. But that's just me. This book is a fun romp into "what if" territory. Read aloud well, it could capture many a youngsters attention again and again and again.
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Summary: Very funny, especially for grown-ups
Review: I bought this book for my kids, ages 3 and 6. I read it out-loud to my husband first and we thought it was hilarious. We were very excited to read it to the kids and they thought it was funny too, but not as much as we did. Our favorite line is, "Duck was a neutral party, so he brought the ultimatum to the cows." Perhaps 'neutral' and 'ultimatum' are words that most little kids don't know. But hey, we have a new book to read to the kids that we truly enjoy. That doesn't happen too often. We all love the illustrations, they add a lot of humor to the story.
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Summary: You'll laugh out loud...
Review: I'm 31-years-old and and am proud to say this is currently my most favorite book. It's absolutely hilarious and a delight to read! I laugh out loud every time I read it. The illustrations are quite striking, too. If you haven't taken the time to examine the illustrations closely, you may want to do so. You'll find some little surprises. My sister, a speech language pathologist (and former preschool teacher like myself), reads this book to her students. As I understand it, it's reportedly good for both articulation exercises as well as language development. Best of all, the kids simply love the story. My sister loved the book so much she insisted I read it. I did so, loved it, and consequently held it for "ransom." The majority of my psych colleagues and I even had a midday storytime to share this book with one another. ;) As a former preschool teacher, I can guarantee this book will be a sure-fire attention-getter with kids. As it stands, I consider my library incomplete until I get a copy of this book for my own. I can't wait until Ms. Cronin and Ms. Lewin bless us with another one of their wonderful stories. This book ranks right up there with the Dumb Bunnies in terms of wit and surprise illustrations. Happy reading and laughing!
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Summary: 6 year olds review
Review: I like the story because it was funny. My favorite part was when the ducks got the diving board. The ducks typed a letter to Farmer Brown because the pond was quite boring. I think my friends would love this book.
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Summary: IT SPEAKS TO ME!!!!!!!!!
Review: Animals bark moo squeal meow moo. Wait I already said Moo. Who cares? Moo moo moo!!!!! Cluck. Furry animals and scaly animals and giraffes have long necks. Moo again! Eric Moo James.
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Summary: Very funny book
Review: This is the tale of cows that find a typewriter and start issuing their demands to the farmer. The book has a lot of action and though some of the concepts are above the age level of the children this book would appeal to ("going on strike" and "duck was a neutral party")it does not detract from the story at all. The tension builds in the book as the cows (now joined by the chickens) make their demands and the farmer issues an ultimatum. It gets to a point where readers will wonder if the conflict can be resolved at all. But it is resolved in a very creative way and the surprise ending adds another comic element to the story.
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Summary: Funny Over and Over Again
Review: My daughter received this book for her 2nd birthday. She LOVES it! I have read this book over and over again at her request and I still chuckle at the end. This book is great for kids but is also funny for adults to read.
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Summary: A good book for Toddlers and College Students
Review: I first came across this book in a class at the college I recently graduated from. At the time we were studying about just war and how to resolve conflicts peacefully and it was quite entertaining when the priest teaching the class came in one morning with this book in hand. By the end of the book the entire class was hanging on the professor's every word, though the point of the lesson has left most of us now, a copy of the book now sits on my youngest sister's book shelf because the greatest thing that I got out of the book was that it made a great Christmas gift for a five year old, and became one of the first books she read on her own.
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