The sleep deprived brain that makes me put the milk in the microwave instead of the refrigerator. “The brain that sends odd signals to you before you go to sleep. “ random and arbitrary thing that I wish I could harness.” Cronin claims that her best material comes from a tired brain. In that state of mind Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type (a Caldecott Honor book illustrated by Betsy Lewin) found its stream. “I believed he helped me write it,” she says. One morning she woke in the middle of the night and started writing, simultaneously crying and laughing as she crafted a story she knew her father would love. He always had a hilarious story to tell.” When he died, she was devastated and frequently had trouble sleeping.

“My father was a police officer and he was very, very funny. Unfortunately for Cronin, that stimulus was the death of her father.

One tidbit that stuck with Cronin was the series of sounds “click clack moo.” She didn’t know what to do with it and let it simmer for a while waiting for another stimulus to give it life. “The things you can’t get rid of in your head-they’re sticking around for a reason.” “Some ideas, some words just stick and bump into each other,” she says. Cronin hypothesizes that while 99% of the material we encounter each day passes through our brains, everyone has some thoughts, sounds, phrases that stick. She is a comic genius whose performance stage is the pages of a children’s book.

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Doreen Cronin possesses the ability to twist ordinary events and facts into something to laugh at. Young readers will love this imaginative recreation of a fly's world with a human twist.- Teresa Wittmann, Westgate Elementary School, Edmonds, WAĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Youngsters will adore Bliss's detailed, humorous illustrations.

Subtle sound effects and occasional music enhance the telling. All of the text in the illustrations and on the end papers is also narrated, including the dialogue in the comics Fly is reading. Illustrator Harry Bliss narrates the characters with appropriately high-pitched voices. Worm and Spider, Fly's friends, help her learn that 'the world needs all kinds of heroes.' This humorous tale includes lots of amazing facts about flies. Fly wants to be a superhero, but she's worried that she isn't special enough. Fly has 327 brothers and sisters and must learn things like landing on moving targets. PreSchool-Grade 3-A young fly documents many everyday situations in her diary, from fitting in on the first day of school to having trouble with the babysitter, in this book (HarperCollins, 2007) by Doreen Cronin.

Diary of a fly by doreen cronin