Chicka+Chicka+Boom+Boom

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is a great book to help young children learn the alphabet. All of the letter of the alphabet are all on their way up the coconut tree until all of the letters reach the top of the tree and fall to the ground. This terrible fall causes the letters to get hurt, but this doesn't stop the letters from climbing back up the coconut tree again!
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Author Bio
Bill Martin Jr. John Archambault Bill Martin Jr. was born on March 20, 1916 in Hiawatha, Kansas. Martin attended college at the Kansas State Teacher's College, where he first learned how to read.For the first time, Martin was excited to teacher young children what someone had taught him, so he received his doctorate in early childhood education from Northwestern University. Martin then went on to teach journalism, drama, and English at high schools around Kansas. Bill Martin Jr. is known for writing more than 300 children's books, being sure that each book turned out exactly how he intended it too. By 1972, Martin was a full-time writer and was joining forces with many other authors to create the many children's book that we still enjoy today. Bill Martin Jr. passed away on August 11, 2004 in Texas.

John Archambault is best known for //Chicka Chicka Boom Boom//. Archambault began to love readign and writing at a young age. Archambault was originally from Pasadena, California where he knew he wanted to be a writer from the time he reachered the third grade. Soon, he was working part-time for his local newspaper and his writing career had officailly started, and he was only in the tenth grade. Archambault and Martin met in graduate school, where they put their ideas together to create their first collaboration of //The Ghost-Eye Tree.// John created over twenty books for children and was happy to help children the excitement of reading and writing.

**Other Children's Literature**
//Knots on a Counting Rope, Barn Dance, The Ghost-Eye Tree, Listen to the Rain, White Dynamite and Curly Kidd, The Magic Pumpkin, Here Are My Hands, Up and Down on the Merry-Go-Round, A Beautiful Feast for a Big King Cat, The Birth of a Whale, Counting Kittens, The Fox and the Chicken, Grandmother's Garden, I Love the Mountains, Counting Sheep, Counting Chickens, Boom Chicka Rock, Ten Little Caterpillars, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See Slide and Find, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Anniversary Edition, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See, Oso Panda Oso Panda Que Ves Ahi, I Love Our Earth, The Turning of the Year, Fire Fire Said Mrs Mcguire, Chicka Chicka 1 2 3, Chicka Chicka Abc, The Maestro Plays, Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear, Panda Bear Panda Bear What Do You See, Bill Martin Jr Eric Carle Three-bear Set [Brown Bear, Polar Bear, Panda Bear], Baby Bear Baby Bear Where Do You See, I Pledge Allegiance, Caddie the Golf Dog, A Beasty Story, Trick or Treat, The Chicka Chicka Abc Magnet Book, The Little Squeegy Bug, Little Granny Quarterback, Pierre Duhem Philosophy and History in the Work of a Believing Physicist, Knots on a Counting Rope, Puffin Classroom Library 1 Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear, Old Devil Wind, Si Won's VIctor, Chicka Chicka Sticka Sticka, Words, Chicka Chicka Abc, The Happy Hippopotami, Up and Down on the Merry-go-round, The Braggin' Dragon, Knots on a Counting Rope, Knots on a Counting Rope-reading Rainbow Book//

**Awards**
PARENTING MAGAZINE Book of the Year for 2004 for //Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3// ALA (American Library Association) Notable Children's Books for //I Pledge Allegiance// Book Links Editor's Best of 2002 for //I Pledge Allegiance// Chicago Public Library Best Books for Children and Teens for //I Pleadge Allegiance//

**Historical Context**
This book was published in 1989 and since then has led to other publications such as //Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 and Chicka Chicka Sticka Sticka, and Chicka Chicka A, B, C//.

**Major Themes**
Learning the alphabet and uses of letters.

**Citations**
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