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The barnyard animals wake up to a brand new day. The cows (of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type fame) are busy typing again clickety-clack, and their note has the animals atwitter. There’s a “duck dashing,” even “eggs emptying” as ducklings hatch from their eggs “flippity-flip!” to join the fun, “goats grooming,” with “hens helping”, and so on in an energetic and silly romp through the alphabet.
The excitement builds until we finally learn that the cows have invited everyone to a picnic (“x marks the picnic spot”). The story ends with the animals yawning and finally catching some zzzz’s at the end of their alphabetical adventure.
This whimsical journey through the alphabet comes from the author-illustrator team that gave us the Caldecott Honor book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type (2000) and its 2002 sequel, Giggle, Giggle, Quack. This new light-hearted and funny alphabetical adventure is sure to have children giggling (and perhaps even quacking!) along at the mayhem that ensues as the farm empties out for the picnic.
Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure takes a fresh approach to teaching children their letters. However, this book is probably better suited to children who either have already learned to identify upper- and lower-case letters, or perhaps own other alphabet book sets. For one thing, Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack only features lower-case letters.
Sometimes the letter in question is a noun, sometimes a verb or other part of speech, as is to be expected when fitting the alphabet to a story line. But this may confuse young children just learning their alphabet. If you set aside that caveat, this is a delightful book to add to a child’s alphabet book collection.
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Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure