Amazing Cows!: Udder Absurdity for Children - Tapa dura

Not since the heyday of Gary Larson has so much adoration been shown to bovines. With her trademark irreverence, Boynton offers an impassioned and hyperbolic ode to cows, replete with jokes, a spread devoted to cow fashion, a cow "myth" that takes place in ancient Athens ("though Fort Lauderdale is also a strong possibility"), limericks, and puns aplenty. One highlight is a comic "from the golden age of overambitious farm animals," featuring a shy research assistant whose alter ego is the cape-wearing superhero, Amazing Cow. Those seeking hard facts about cows are mooing up the wrong tree; those in the mood for "udder chaos" need look no further. It's pure fun. -- Publisher's Weekly

An inventive new work of pure obsession by a best-selling author/illustrator that celebrates cows and offbeat "cowness" with a miscellany of cow stories, cow poems, cow jokes, cow songs, cow games and cow comics, plus lively guest appearances by ducks, hippos, pigs and excessive numbers of chickens.