Dooby Dooby Moo (A Click Clack Book)

I teach 3-5 year-olds and we all love this hilarious book. The plot: Duck sees an advertisement for a talent show in Farmer Brown's newspaper and cuts it out. The animals practice their acts in secret. Farmer Brown knows they are up to something, but can't figure it out. They go to the talent show and... surprise ending! It's great fun to read aloud. Your inner performer will come to the fore as you render the cows singing, "Dooby dooby moo" to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the sheep singing, "fa la la la bah" to the tune Home on the Range. (Spoiler alert:) It will also come in handy if you can quack to the tune of "Born to Be Wild." The book is peppered with subtle humor with plenty for both adults and children to enjoy; for example the disclaimer the animals sign at the talent show registration and the judges' Olympics-style scoring. Look for the mice on each page and see their reactions. We learn the outcome of the story with one picture on the last page - no words! The picture says it all. This book is the third in a series (after Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type and Giggle Giggle Quack) and definitely our favorite of the three. I like to introduce Dooby Dooby Moo by reading the first two books first, which are also very good, but Dooby Dooby Moo is the one we keep coming back to.

This is the most adorable kids book ever. It has me giggling every time!

The Click Clack series of books are adorable. I gave this one and two others to a friend's 3 year old because she loves to read. And because I read some of these books to my daughter 15 years ago. They quickly became favorites with both these girls--15 years apart! They are just as fun for adults to read to the kiddos in their lives.

This book, although not as good as previous books by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin, is a funny story of hte preparation and execution for a talent show. The artwork is on par with all of the other Duck/Farmer Brown books. I found the notes and the legalese in the small print hilarious. Young children will love this and other books in the series. I recommend them all.

A really funny book. Love this series.

This is one of my all-time favorite books to read and sing with kids. I recently added egg-shakers to our storytime, which made this even more fun! The kids are more interested in singing like a cow, pig and duck when eggs are also part of the picture. However, you don't need eggs or a great singing voice (I don't have one) to share this book with your child. Although the author/illustrator is more well-known for the Caldecott Honor "Click, Clack, Moo," I prefer this one.

We found this series at the library first and enjoyed them so much that we purchased them for ourselves. This book features a duck that really wants to win a trampoline at the county fair. He trains the pigs to do an interpretive dance, the sheep to sing a song and the cows to sing another song. This is the kind of book my children never grow tired of having read to them and at the same time I never tire of reading it to them. It is just great fun.

A perfect gift for a young child. Checkout all the books by this author.

Our family loves the Betsy Lewin books. I enjoy reading them almost as much as our son loves hearing them.

I ordered this book as my son is a big fan of other books by the author and illustrator. While he is too little to appreciate the story fully, he loves the illustrations and smiles when I start quacking Born To Be Wild. He frequently chooses this story at bedtime. That cheeky Duck decides to enter the animals in a talent show where the first prize is a trampoline. With varying degrees of talent, the animals rehearse under Duck's direction while Farmer Brown tries to ascertain what they are up to. It's a charming little story which delighted every kid who read it in our house as well as all the adults!

Have to admit to being 33 and bought this for myself, love this series of books, very funny and good for all ages!