Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

***Chicka Chicka Boom Boom***, also known as ***Chicka Chicka ABC***, is a bestselling American children's book written by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert, and published by Simon & Schuster in 1989. The book teaches the alphabet through rhyming couplets, It charted _The New York Times_ Best Seller list for children's books in 2000.

## Plot

The anthropomorphic lowercase alphabet magnets climb up a coconut tree in order, but their weight causes the tree to lean over, causing themselves to fall out of the tree. Shortly after, the uppercase alphabet magnets (the older relatives of the lowercase alphabet) come to rescue them. Again alphabetically, while being rescued, most of the alphabet receive certain injuries. Later that night, the letter A gets up and climbs back up the coconut tree, proposing a double dare on the rest of the alphabet to catch him. You see the story in the Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud, the book published in 2000. It has British and American terms, too. The book was published by Random House, but the American book is the 20th-century Children's Book Treasury. It was published in 1998.

## Album

In 1992, John  Archambault and David Plummer made an album called _Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Other Coconutty Songs_. It was named a 1992 "Notable Children's Recording American Library Association and in 1993, won a Parents' Choice Award. Its main track was the title song _Chicka Chicka Boom Boom_, which was the book's title.

### Track list

{{track listing
| headline1       =

| title1          = Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
| writer1         =
| length1         = 2:25

| title2          = ABC Song
| writer2         =
| length2         = 0:54

| title3          = Braggin' Dragon
| writer3         =
| length3         = 2:20

| title4          = Helicopter Man
| writer4         =
| length4         = 2:23

| title5          = Merry-Go-Round
| writer5         =
| length5         = 2:36

| title6          = Didgereedoo
| writer6         =
| length6         = 3:08

| title7          = Counting Sheep
| writer7         =
| length7         = 2:25

| title8          = B-A-Bay
| writer8         =
| length8         = 1:51

| title9          = 5 Little Monkeys
| writer9         =
| length9         = 0:19

| title10         = Here Comes Another One
| writer10        =
| length10        = 3:00

| title11         = Saturday Night At The Fair
| writer11        =
| length11        = 2:01

| title12         = Jump Rope Rhymes
| writer12        =
| length12        = 2:00

| title13         = Chicka Chicka Funk
| writer13        =
| length13        = 3:36

| title14         = ABC Song Part 2
| writer14        =
| length14        = 0:30

## References

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## Infobox (book)

- **name**: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
- **author**: Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
- **illustrator**: Lois Ehlert
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English language, English
- **series**: Chicka Chicka Books
- **genre**: Children's literature, Children's picture book
- **publisher**: Simon & Schuster
- **pub date**: September 14, 1989
- **pages**: 36
- **isbn**: 1-55924-577-8
- **oclc**: 19262991
- **followed by**: Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3


## Infobox (album)

- **name**: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Other Coconutty Songs
- **type**: Studio album
- **artist**: John Archambault and David Plummer (musician), David Plummer
- **released**: 2000
- **recorded**: 1991–1992
- **genre**: Children's music
- **label**: Youngheart Records
- **producer**: David Plummer & John Archambault