Doreen Cronin is an American

United States

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 author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.

Born in New York

New York

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 and growing up on Long Island

Long Island

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, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school

Law school

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, eventually completing it around the same time that Click Clack Moo was completed. Click Clack Moo was later published, winning a number of awards and being named a honor winner for the Caldecott Medal

Caldecott Medal

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children , a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. The award was named in honor of nineteenth-century English...

. Cronin currently lives in New York with her husband Andrew and her daughter.

Works

• Diary of a Spider
  Diary of a Spider
  Diary of a Spider is a children's picture book published in 2005 and it is a sequel to Diary of a Worm. It is written by Doreen Cronin and it is illustrated by Harry Bliss.-Plot:The book is a diary written by a spider...
  
  
• Diary of a Worm
• Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type
• Giggle Giggle Quack
• Duck for President
  Duck for President
  Duck for President is a children's book written by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Released in 2004 through Simon and Schuster, the New York Times Best Illustrated Book follows the further adventures of Farmer Brown's animals that were introduced in Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type...
  
  
• Wiggle
  Wiggle (book)
  Wiggle is a children's picture book by Doreen Cronin and is illustrated by Scott Menchin.-Plot:The book is about wiggling. For instance, "First wiggle where your tail would be. Then wiggle all your hair...
  
  
• Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure
  Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure
  Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure is a children's picture book by Doreen Cronin and it is illustrated by Betsy Lewin.-Plot:...
  
  
• Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure
  Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure
  Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure is a children's book written by Doreen Cronin and is illustrated by Betsy Lewin. It is one of the sequels to Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.-Plot:...
  
  
• Dooby Dooby Moo
  Dooby Dooby Moo
  Dooby Dooby Moo is a children's book written by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Released in 2006 by Athenium, it continues the story of Farmer Brown's animals from Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, who enter a talent show in an attempt to win a trampoline....
  
  
• Diary of a Fly
• Thump, Quack, Moo
• Rescue Bunnies

External links and references

• Official site.
• Booksense interview.