Duck strikes again in author/illustrator team Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin's ninth picture-book devoted to the humorous (mis)adventures of the animals in Farmer Brown's barnyard. When Baby Duck finally hatches, after much anticipation on the part of the other animals, his incessant peeping is cute at first, until the farm residents want to go to sleep. Nothing they do seems to make the duckling sleepy, until finally Duck himself takes a hand, with effective but hilarious results...

Although I am a fan of these books, and am particularly fond of Duck himself, I found Click, Clack, Peep! a little thin, story-wise. There wasn't much to this one, and Cronin's use of onomatopoeia, something to be found throughout the series, somehow felt a little less effective than usual here. The artwork by Lewin was up to standard, as cute and expressive as ever, but all in all I found this one a little boring, and might even have given it a two or two-and-a-half star rating, had the final page not made me laugh out loud. Duck really is a character, and I enjoy his antics, even if I wouldn't want him near any farm I owned. Atypically, I've been reading this series out of order, so I know that subsequent entries were more to my liking than this one. Recommended primarily to determined young fans of Farmer Brown and his animal companions. ( )

Farmer Brown and the animals got an egg sent to the farm. The animals didn't know what it was. Once the egg cracked, and a baby duck came out of the egg. Once it was time to go to bed, the baby duck was not ready and did not want to go to sleep. The baby duck kept making peep noises and keeping the other animals up. Finally, duck knew what to do, he rode the tractor and put baby duck to sleep. Books show that if you have patients with things or people that it will work out in the end. ( )

In this fiction story, Farmer Brown owns a quiet farm where all the pigs, cows, chickens, sheep, and ducks are watching an egg. Each of the animals Moo, Baa, Cluck, Oink, Clack, or Click at the egg attempting to find out what animal the egg is going to be. Suddenly, the animals heard the egg start to crack. All the animals gathered around the egg, watching intently. Out hatches a baby duck! The baby duck laughed, waddled, played, while all the other animals started yawning. The baby duck would not sleep so each animal tried something new to make the duck sleep. It wasn't until big duck carried her outside and took her around the barn on a tractor. They went back and forth until the baby duck fell fast asleep. ( )

all the farm animals are waiting for a new duck to be born. finally the duck is born but he will not go to sleep. finally the momma duck takes him on a ride in the tractor to get him to sleep.
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No, do not take your baby for a drive to soothe it. ?áIf it's not sleepy, it's not sleepy.
Also, the cows did not 'lower the blinds' -- they closed the shutters.?á
This installment seems 'phoned in' to me, sorry. ( )