Cover artist Pamela Allen Media type Print (paperback) ISBN 978-0140553321 Illustrator Pamela Allen | Language English Pages unpaginated (30) Originally published 1994 Genre Picture book Country Australia | |
Publisher Penguin Books Australia Similar Pamela Allen books, Other books | ||
Clippity-Clop is a 1994 children's picture book written and illustrated by Pamela Allen. It is about a little old man and woman and two donkeys, laden down with goods, that won't move.
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Plot
The protagonists, a little old man and lady load goods, a parrot, that squawks throughout the story, and a cat, that miaows throughout the story, onto two donkeys. They then attempt to move the donkeys without success. The man ignores the lady's warning and, resorts to using a whip to move his donkey. The donkey doesn't like this, "eeeeeeooooooW!", and runs away, "clippity-clop, clippity-clop". The man chases after the donkey, "plip-plop, plip-plop", eventually catches it, and entices the donkey to follow him with carrots."Yummy yummy yum-yum, Come, come come". The donkey eats so many carrots that the man has to carry it, "AAAH-HAAA AAAH-HAAA". Meanwhile, the lady, who was left behind, reappears riding her donkey, having tied a carrot to her whip to encourage the donkey to move. She overtakes the man with her donkey happily chasing the carrot,"clippity-clop, CLIPPITY-CLOP!", and the cat is also pleased, "PURRRRR! RRRRR!".
Reception
Clippity-Clop has been reviewed by Reading Time and Magpies. "Like other books by this award-winning author, the sound effects are wonderful." It has been taught/read at school.