Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure

Cronin, Doreen; Lewin, Betsy

ISBN 10: 1599610906 ISBN 13: 9781599610900

Publisher: Spotlight, 2006

Synopsis

1 farmer sleeping. 2 feet creeping. 3 buckets piled high. 4 chickens standing by. Duck is about to trick poor Farmer Brown once again. While the farmer is sleeping the afternoon away, Duck and the other animals are planning a most unusual fishing trip. Sneaking past Farmer Brown is going to be as easy as 1, 2, 3! This numerical adventure for the very youngest Duck fans brings counting books to a whole new level -- click, clack, splish, splash!

About this title

About the Author

Doreen Cronin is the author of The Chicken Squad series, Cyclone, and many other New York Times bestselling picture books, including Click, Clack, Surprise!; Click, Clack, Ho, Ho, Ho; Click, Clack, Peep; Click, Clack, Boo!; Dooby Dooby Moo; Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure; Bounce; Wiggle; Duck for President; Giggle, Giggle, Quack; Bloom; and the Caldecott Honor Book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at DoreenCronin.com.

From Booklist

PreS. The team that created the Caldecott Honor Book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (2000) and the recent Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabet Adventure (2005) offers another rambunctious farmyard farce. This one plays with numbers, offering not only a simple, interactive counting rhyme but also a trickster story with a real surprise. From "1 farmer sleeping," "two feet creeping," "six goats load the boat," and so on until "10 fish ready to go," the cumulative verse and wild, thick-lined cartoon artwork follow the progress of the animals as they ready themselves for a secret fishing expedition. Preschoolers may need help processing some of the scenarios, including the ending (particularly if they failed to notice the aquarium in the first picture). Most, however, will enjoy the counting exercise as well as the suspense of the story, and they'll want to go back to the beginning to see what they missed. What fish? Gone where? Hazel Rochman
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Edition details

• Publisher: Spotlight
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1599610906
• ISBN 13: 9781599610900
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English