- ISBN13: 9780689832130
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Farmer Brown
has a problem.
His cows like to type.
All day long he hears Click, clack, MOO.
Click, clack, MOO.
Clickety, clack, MOO. But Farmer Brown’s problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes…. Doreen Cronin’s understated text and Betsy Lewin’s expressive illustrations make the most of this hilarious situation. Come join the fun as a bunch of literate cows turn Farmer Brown’s farm upside down…. Buy From AMAZON.COM >>
March 11th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
I thought this would be a wonderful book to read to my children. I can’t believe how wrong I was. First of all, Ms. Cronin seems to take her readers for fools, thinking that we’ll just nod and look away as she spoon-feeds us… TALKING COWS. I kid you not. And these aren’t just any talking cows. They have typing skills and even stage a strike. You can’t even be gullible to buy this, you’ve got to be downright stupid, and even that’s a stretch. I would most definitely not recommend this book to any parent, unless for some reason you want your children to grow up believing in talking cows and cow strikes that result in milk shortages and whatnot. Utterly terrible — pun intended.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 11th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
OK, the book is cute, but the reason that it has received such acclaim and honor is because it celebrates and encourages Union activity. Certainly the media would not have fallen in love with this book if farmer brown turned the ungrateful, inefficient and pampered cows into hamburger and drumsticks and replaced them with more appreciative, hard working, and efficient cows and chickens. Or would it have received the same media and literary praise if it showed that farmer brown had to move his farm to Mexico or lay off farm hands because the increased electrical costs caused by the cows and chickens made his farm uncompetitive?
Rating: 1 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 12:33 am
My granddaughters love this story (ages almost 5 & 3). They requested it, in fact, after reading a library copy. I personally have mixed feelings about it. It demonstrates the use of blackmail to get what you want. I’m not sure that’s such a good lesson…
Rating: 1 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 3:02 am
Use Doreen Cronin’s clicking cows to DECODEnglish!
If your learner has progressed to Level 5’s explicit pronunciation, spelling, and reading skills, these other characters will also provide excellent practice…
The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein); The Very Clumsy Click Beetle (Eric Carle); Henry Hikes to Fitchburg (D. B. Johnson); Fox in Sox (Dr. Seuss); Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak); But I Waaannt It (Dr. Laura Schlessinger).
Rating: 5 / 5
March 12th, 2010 at 4:41 am
The book is mildly amusing, but that’s about it. I was very disappointed as the premise held such promise. But the book is overly repetitive (how many times do you have to say Click Clack Moo before it dtrarts to grate? Ferwe than are required by the text, that’s for sure), the drawings are not very impressive (too many are too dark and amorphous) and the story, such as it is, doesn’t amount to much.
I think most kid’s at the lower end of the target age range will like it OK, but for the life of me I can’t imagine how anyone familiar with any of the classics of literature aimed at this age group could ever regard this as that sort of effort. It’s mediocre at best.
If you want a great book for this target age get Courduroy, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Gregory the Terrible Eater or Bailer Goes Camping–all much better stories that are far less expensive than this book.
Rating: 2 / 5