The Trouble With Chickens

Doreen Cronin is an American children’s author. Born in 1966 in Queens, New York, Cronin studied law at St. John’s University School of Law before beginning her career as a writer. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Cronin is best known for her best-selling picture book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type and its sequels Click, Clack, Boo: A Tricky Treat and Duck for President. Cronin’s books have been finalists for prizes such as the Odyssey Award, the Cybils Award for Early Chapter Books, and the Amelia Bloomer List. Her first picture book, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, won the Caldecott Medal, and its follow-up book, Duck for President, won the Indies Choice Book Award. Cronin has expanded on her picture book success in her “Ready to Read” series, a beginner reader series that features familiar characters like Duck and Farmer Brown. Her latest picture book, Mama in the Moon, is about a baby sloth and its mother. Cronin is also the author of numerous chapter books for children, including the “Diary” series, which features tiny critters explaining the world from their perspectives in Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, and Diary of a Fly.