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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The crafty barnyard crew from Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That
Type is back, and this time Farmer Brown has decided to take
a vacation. But not to worry--he's leaving his brother Bob to
mind the farm: "I wrote everything down for you. Just follow
my instructions and everything will be fine. But keep an eye on
Duck. He's trouble." Of course, fans of Doreen Cronin and
Betsy Lewin's last brilliant book already know to keep an eye
on that manipulative mallard. Now, wait a minute... what's Duck
doing eyeing that pencil?
Poor Bob has no idea what he's in for, and Duck and friends have
shrewdly seized this chance to move on from collective bargaining
to outright subterfuge: "Bob gave Duck a good long stare
and went inside. He read the first note: 'Tuesday night is pizza
night (not the frozen kind!). The hens prefer anchovies.'"
Well, seems like strange way to run a farm, but... "Twenty-nine
minutes later there was hot pizza in the barn." Giggle, giggle,
quack, indeed.
Clearly, Duck and his cow pals aren't the only ones around to
have mastered the pencil and the keyboard. Cronin and Lewin have
put their talents to good use yet again, offering up another simple
but clever story fit for kids and grownups alike. Lewin seems
to snicker throughout her playful watercolors (gotta love those
monogrammed towels: "FB"), and Cronin has a ball with
the animal cast and their human patsy. (What do the cows pick
on movie night? "The Sound of Moosic," of course. Giggle,
giggle, moo.) (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes
From Publishers Weekly
The barnyard animals first seen in Cronin and Lewin's Click, Clack,
Moo: Cows That Type continue to express themselves via the written
word in this clever and funny sequel. When Farmer Brown takes
a vacation and leaves his brother Bob in charge ("I wrote
everything down for you. Just follow my instructions and everything
will be fine. But keep an eye on Duck. He's trouble"), enterprising
Duck sees boundless opportunity in the situation. The webbed fellow
commandeers the pencil and paper that...
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