Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure is a children's book written by Doreen Cronin

Doreen Cronin

Doreen Cronin is an American author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.Born in New York and growing up on Long Island, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school, eventually completing it around...

 and is illustrated by Betsy Lewin

Betsy Lewin

Betsy Reilly Lewin is an American illustrator from Clearfield, Pennsylvania. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute. After graduation, she began designing business cards. She began writing and illustrating stories for children's magazines and eventually children's books...

. It is one of the sequels to Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.

Plot

While the farmer sleeps on the couch close to the fishing tank, Duck and the barnyard animals sneak into the house on a quiet mission that involves "3 buckets piled high" outside the window and "4 chickens standing by". At the end of the book, the reader finds out that Duck's plan was the liberate the farmer's fish.

Reception

A Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly

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 review says, "Though not quite as charming as its abecedarian cousin, this slight volume still offers a comical introduction to numerals one through 10. Lewin's black-outlined menagerie is as breezy as ever, tiptoeing, climbing or splashing through lots of white space to the final destination". A Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

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 review says, "A must-have sequel to all of Duck's adventures". Rosalyn Pierini, of School Library Journal

School Library Journal

The School Library Journal is a monthly magazine with articles and reviews for school librarians, media specialists, and public librarians who work with young people. Articles cover a wide variety of topics, with a focus on technology and multimedia. Reviews are included for preschool to 4th grade,...

reviewed the book saying, " A great tool for parents and teachers seeking to make learning fun".