Author: Doreen Cronin

Illustrator: Betsy Lewin

Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Year Published: 2006

Reading Level: Kindergarten-3rd Grade, Late Emergent

Topic and Themes: Living on a farm, Helping one another, Animals

Curricular Use: Read Aloud, Readers Theatre

Social: Farming Life, Funny, Fun

Literary Elements: Onomatopoeia, Personification

Text and Pictures: The pictures and text go together very well. The pictures are very colorful and would be eye-catching to a child.

Summary: There is a talent show that is being held and all of the animals find out about it. They start practicing for the show and Farmer Brown doesn't have a clue as to what is going on. Duck wins at the talent show, and the prize was a trampoline.

A review of: Dooby Dooby Moo

Publishing Details: Dooby Dooby Moo
ttAuthor: Doreen Cronin
ttYear: 2006
ttPublishing: Simon &Schuster

Introduction: In Doreen Cronin’s Dooby Dooby Moo, she tells another silly story about the animals on Farmer Brown’s farm. They are always getting into some sort of mischief which leads Farmer Brown to keep a very close eye on them, especially this time.

Description: One morning when Duck is reading Farmer Brown’s morning paper he sees something interesting, a talent show at the fair! He rips it out and runs to the barn; this is when Farmer Brown becomes suspicious. He watches them all day and even listens to the barn at night. However, inside the animals are working hard on their preparations. When Farmer Brown leaves for the fair he doesn’t trust the animals alone so he brings them along. They sneak out when Farmer Brown leaves and compete in the talent show. The cows, sheep, and Duck all sing their songs. After the show everyone was ecstatic and they run back before Farmer Brown knew they were even gone.

Text Judgment: Like most of Doreen Cronin’s books this is another great animal fantasy about the hilarious encounters the animals have with Farmer Brown. The illustrations help connect the reader with the emotions of all of the characters. This book is targeted at early elementary school students.

A cheerful, fun, colorful story!

My five-year-old son picked this book out from our local library this week. I was pleased.

I remember when this book came out. I was a children's librarian and I teaching the story-telling part of the babysitting class at the library. I pulled this book for the "older kids" -- first and second grade. I had to teach the babysitting class kids the tune of "Born to be Wild". The kid who was reading the part, ducked out at the last minute, so I had to sing it for him. Great fun.

I thought this book might be a bit long for my son, but I read every word to him tonight. And he laughed at all the right places.

The illustrations are every bit as silly as the text, and that is a very good thing.

I love Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewis’s ability to create simple but fun stories. I love this one. It’s simple and silly and fun. The pictures are cute but not so busy as to be overwhelming. I love it!

A family favorite. My grandpa gets an especial kick out of reading this to anyone who will let him!

This book is about a bunch of farm animals all rehearsing their acts for a talent show and their funny farmer.

I love this book!! this book is so cute. I thought all the farm animals were cute and the installations are fun.

I would use this book for a farm lesson, I could use it for animals, farm and even how the children have special talents.

M says 10 stars, 5yo
M changed her review to 488 stars. :-)

Definitely a five star book when read by Diane Kukahiko!!

Dooby Dooby Moo tells the story of a group of animals who are extremely strong minded. They decide to enter a talent contest because the grand prize is a trampoline, but they must face Farmer Brown first. The illustrations really help the reader connect to the animals and the comedy of the book, and also give children the intellectual picture of the animals having a good time.

I can relate to this book because when I was younger I used to work on a farm, and all the wild things the animals use to do were mind blowing. While the animals are waiting for Farmer Brown to go to bed so that they can practice it just goes to show that you never really know what they are up to. This can also relate to children because once you turn your back they will unquestionably try to get away with what they can.

Naturally I think of a unit on farm animals when I think about this book. This would be a good read aloud to the class after you have been talking about farm animals. You could read about half of the book then put the class into groups and ask them to predict the ending. When they are done have the groups share with the class what they came up with. After that read the rest of the book and have a class discussion comparing farm animals to the animals in the book.

This book is 430 Lexile which would be appropriate for a read aloud for kindergarten and up, but should be reading independently by 2nd grade.

Duck is the most based thing I've seen from Chick-Fil-A

I think this is my favorite follow-up in this series...cute and hilarious.