From Sandra Boyntonโas it could only come from Boyntonโan inventive new exuberant jumble of a book for the young reader. Amazing Cows is a picture book, a storybook, a book of fun and gamesโitโs all those things in one. Plus it even shows you how to find the startling recording of Maurice Ravelโs โBolero Completely Unraveled for Orchestra and Kazoosโ performed by Sandra Boyton & The Highly Irritating Orchestra. (Running time is 17:14, but seems MUCH longer.)
A work of pure obsession, Amazing Cows celebrates cows and offbeat cowness with a miscellany of cow stories, cow poems, cow jokes, and other bovine ephemera. Along the way, expect lively guest appearances by ducks, pigs, and excessive numbers of chickens. Thereโs a song: "It Had to Be Moo." A game: "Find the Hidden Cows." Famous Barnyard Composers (surely youโve heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Moozart and Johann Sebastian Bockbockbock). Knock-knock jokes, a cow myth, and an Amazing Cow comic-book adventure: "Trouble on Zebblor 7." Cow fashion. Cow Limericks. How to Speak Cow. Plus so much mooer.
Amazing Cows is full-color, 96 pages long, and packed with the kind of silly fun that young readers adore, especially when they can read it to themselvesโand then read it to their parents, and then to their little brothers, and then to the family dog. Or the family cow.
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