Giggle, Giggle, Quack

Book: Giggle, Giggle, Quack
Author: Doreen Cronin
Illustrator: Betsy Lewin

Summary of the book:

The book is very short, explaining why my summary of the book will also be rather short. One day Farmer Brown decided to go on vacation so he left his farm, along with the animals, in charge to his brother Bob. He was given a list of things to do with the animals on certain days and was also warned to keep a close eye on Duck because he liked to cause trouble. Duck ends up replacing the "to do list" with his own to do list. On Tuesday the duck wrote down that it was pizza night so the animals had pizza to eat that night. Wednesday was bath day for the pigs and they were to have a nice bubble bath and to be dried in nice towels. Thursday night was movie night.

Farmer Brown decides to call home to check up on the animals and he heard the nose of the animals in the background. This made him realize that they had done something they weren't suppose to and he comes back early from his vacation upset at the animals.

Critique:

I saw the good in this book and the bad at times. I was a little disappointed at how little content it had, but it would fine for younger children. The last couple of pages contained little to no words and there seemed to be a lot of in between story parts missing which makes it a tad hard to put together.

That being said it does make it a wonderful book to predict for a couple of reasons. The first reason being as it doesn't contain many words and the children can predict or come up with what they think is going on within the story based on the pictures. This, along with the great pictures, makes for a good picture book to share with a class room. The second reason it's a great book for predicting is because it has a repeating pattern to it. Every time the animals got away with tricking Bob they would say something such as, "Giggle, Giggle, Cluck."

A wonderful project to do with this book would be a project where the children could make up notes that could have been left to Bob if his brother hadn't caught the animals and came back from vacation. The notes start on Tuesday and end on Thursday, which leaves Friday through Monday left for this creative and fun project.

In conclusion, I would highly recommend this book to younger children if you wanted a book that would be great for predictions and a neat little project to follow. The pictures were great and could almost tell the story by themselves as they do later in the end of the book.