FICTION

Chicken, Chicken, Duck!

by Nadia KRILANOVICH
978-1-58246-385-8.
COPY ISBN
PreS-K—Simple words and pictures tell the story of a barnyard pileup: "Chicken Chicken Duck/Goat Sheep Llama/maa maa baa baa snuffle cluck/QUACK!" On stark white backgrounds, animals rendered in rich acrylics jump startlingly off the pages and out of the borders. The page layouts tend to feel a little awkward, and there is general confusion throughout, making unclear what all this rhythmic animal identification and onomatopoeia are leading up to until the very end when all of the creatures are shown in a pyramid. An additional purchase for sharing sounds, rhythm, and silliness with young children.—Julie Roach, Cambridge Public Library, MA
With a few "QUACKS!" a bossy duck directs other farm animals in a sort of game; the creatures form a carefully balanced pyramid--duck on top--by story's end. The spare text consists mostly of animal names and sounds. Lively, expressive acrylic illustrations showing just the animals and plenty of white space will hold preschoolers' attention as they moo and cluck right along.
Reviewed by Julie Roach , Mar 01, 2011

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