Doreen Cronin (born ) is an American writer of children's books, including Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, a very well-received picture book illustrated by Betsy Lewin.
Life
Cronin was born in Queens, New York City, and grew up on Long Island. Cronin's first book was published by Simon & Schuster in Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, a picture book that she wrote and Betsy Lewin illustrated. She completed law school and the book at around the same time. Illustrator Lewin was a runner-up for the annual Caldecott Medal.
Cronin lives in Brooklyn as of with her two children.
Awards and honors
Nine of Cronin's books are Junior Library Guild selections: Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type (), Diary of a Worm (), Diary of a Spider (), Diary of a Fly (), Smick! (), Click, Clack, Quack to School (), Click, Clack, Peep! (), Click, Clack, Surprise! (), and Click, Clack Rainy Day ().
In , The Chicken Squad was named one of the best books of the year by Bank Street College of Education.
Smick was named one of the best picture books of the year by Booklist () and Bank Street College of Education (), wh
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(Full name Doreen A. Cronin) American author of picture books.
The following entry presents an overview of Cronin’s career through For further information on her life and career, see CLR, Volume
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Lawyer-turned-author Cronin is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her best-selling children’s picture books. Her debut children’s book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (), illustrated by Betsy Lewin, was named a Caldecott Medal Honor Book. This whimsical story of farm animals who go on strike, proclaiming their demands to Farmer Brown in typewritten notes, was followed by Giggle, Giggle, Quack (), in which the animals make the most of Farmer’s Brown’s week-long vacation. Cronin has been widely praised for her cunning animal protagonists and sense of playfulness in creating laugh-out-loud stories for young readers. Her characteristic absurdist slant is prominently featured in her humorous take on the vagaries of modern politics in Duck for President () and in her series of fictional picture book diaries, narrated from the unusual perspectives of some o
Doreen Cronin
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Doreen Cronin is the author of the best-selling Giggle, Giggle, Quack; Diary of a Worm; and Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, which was named a Caldecott Honor Book. She lives in New York with her husband, Andrew.
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Series
Books:
Click, Clack, Moo, OctoberPaperback / e-Book
The Trouble with Chickens, March
Hardcover / e-Book
Duck for President, January
Hardcover (reprint)
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