Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Author: Bill Martin Jr.

Publishing:  Beach Lane Books

Number of Pages: 32 pages

Genre:  Picture Book

Reading Level:  Ages 4-8

Summary:   Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is a learning book for children about the alphabet.  Its about all of the letters going up a coconut tree and then all of them falling down out of it and them getting “hurt.”  For example, the book starts with “A told B, and B told C, ‘I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.’”  Then all the alphabet is in the tree and then they all need to come down: “Look whos coming!  It’s black-eyed P, Q R S, and loose-tooth T.  Then U V W wiggle –jiggle free.”  The book ends with A daring everyone to beat him to the top of the coconut tree.

My Reaction to the Book:  I thought this was a fun book to read, it’s a very good children’s book for learning the letters of the alphabet. 

Potential Problems:  There aren’t any problems with this book at all.

Recommendations:  I would recommend this book to anyone that is trying to learn letters, it’s a fun book for kids to start recognizing letters.  A good learning book, especially with the repetition of “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.”