Unlike other familiar picture book subjects -- the first day of school, say, or the arrival of a new baby -- the alphabet is devoid of emotional content. It has an enforced sequence: one letter must ...

It's funny business as usual down on the Brown farm, as droll Duck and those literate cows from Cronin and Lewin's Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type return in this conceptual romp for younger readers.

When Farmer Brown receives a letter requesting that he and the farm animals visit Dinkelmeyer Elementary School, he is excited: “He had not been to school in a very, very long time!” The cows, ...