Come along for a ride and see the most entertaining, surprising cows you could ever imagine.Cows fishing, cows playing mini golf, cows mowing the lawn. . . .There are plenty of amusements in this book full of whimsy and cheer. It will remind you of Sandra Boynton and Go, Dog, Go, but with wordplay and visual humor all its own.This is a sprightly, friendly charmer that will please any toddler.
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PreSchool-K–A child takes a family trip through the country and describes the sights witnessed from the car window. The youngster sees cows carrying out a variety of atypical bovine activities, from standing and waving to playing miniature golf. When the family finally arrives home, the little one, now tucked into bed, thinks about all of the cows seen that day and says good-bye to them. The simple, sometimes-rhyming text has some playful moments, but it is mostly a mishmash of bovines engaged in strange and inexplicable endeavors. While Nash's fun illustrations in a retro color scheme give this title a lift, the tale is still ultimately forgettable. For a quirky cow read-aloud, stick with Doreen Cronin's Click Clack Moo (S & S, 2000).– Rachel G. Payne, Brooklyn Public Library, NY
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...simply drawn figures and pale, clear colors... will delight parents as much as preschoolers... -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviews
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Cows passing by - works like a lullaby,
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This review is from: Cows Going Past (Dial Books for Young Readers) (Hardcover)
Come along for a ride in the family car, and see the country side passing by. Best of all are the cows. They come in different colors and do all sorts of funny things. Watch things going by all day from long from a window in the car. Then, come back home, get tucked in safely in your bed, and say good bye to all the friendly cows you have seen. Do cows dream too? This basic concept book can be used to introduce colors, numbers and cows. Its main intent seems to be to get a preschool age child to sleep though. The straightforward illustrations kept in calming earth tone colors go along nicely with the easy to understand, unpretentious, semi-rhymed text. The simplicity and shortness of the tale, the repetitive rhyme and large font text makes this a fine bedtime story to be read by a parent and a young child.
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This review is from: Cows Going Past (Dial Books for Young Readers) (Hardcover)
A book that could be regarded as a concept book to teach colors, as an apt amusement on a car ride, as a bed-time story (it winds down to a slower pace as the journey ends) -- a parent who wanted to could even use the simple but appealing illustrations to let it become a counting book. ("How many cows are on THIS page?") The important thing to note, however, is that it's fun to read aloud! Both the unpretentious voice (a casual sort of semi-metered semi-rhyme) and the equally unassuming art have an odd charm. Children will enjoy searching out details: the fish tiptoeing from the stream rob worms from the bait can of cows who have fallen asleep fishing; the fact that the black cows in the black night are engaged in catching fire-flies.
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The Tao of Cow,
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A legendary three-panel "Far Side" episode begins with a herd of cattle standing upright, like humans, in a roadside meadow, talking. One steer, the lookout, yells, "CAR!" and the kine quickly get down on all fours and graze at clover. Once the car has passed, they resume their bipedal socializing. Was Gary Larson right? Are cattle really "onto" us? If your child is a city kid or a 'burb brat, she or he may never have seen cows and bulls except for the occasional fleeting glance out the car window during a family outing. She or he could easily be forgiven the impression that they are as stolid as they are solid. Sedentary. Subordinate. Stupid. Bruce Balen and illustrator Scott Nash want to banish our cowhidebound preconceptions about bovinity.
Their new children's picture book "Cows Going Past" might as easily have been titled "No Bull," but the entire cast is female. They might not all look overly feminine, but cows are cows, and cows are female. (Where are the fellas? Possibly they're all off at Wrestlemania or at a tractor pull somewhere.) Another preconception we are implicitly asked to readdress is our notion that cows are endowed with, um, udders. *These* cows are strictly dairy-free. This is not because Mr. Nash is nescient of dugs anatomy, for the cow diva of the Nash-illustrated "Over the Moon" was udderly magnificent. I can only conclude that since Janet Jackson's Superbowl surprise, the forces of repression and censorship have prevailed. Regrettable, but hardly ruinous. For "Cows Going Past" is one lively celebration of livestock. Very simple, very brief text, ideal for beginning readers. Understand this: the cows depicted therein are by no means your stereotypical dull, ruminative ungulates, stoically waiting out their prehamburger days, languidly tongueing salt licks, masticating cuds, caudally flagellating flies. These cows are pro-active. They're living in the moment. Feeling their oats. They're not abattoir-obsessed, no sir. No slaughterhouse jive for *these* Jersey girls. They're movers. They're shakers. Comfortable in their hide. They push lawnmowers. They indulge in giddy pastoral terpischore. They get in your face. They play softball. They disport at the seashore (after applying sunblock -- cows have understandable cause to be terrified of "leathery" skin). They rock out in combos. All of this bovid activity is witnessed by a young boy from the vantage point of the backseat of his parents' sedan. By and by, evening descends, and a prolonged period of crepuscular farewells ensues. The book gently shades into what we might call "Goodnight Moo!" Safely home and in bed, buzzed after his exhilarating exposure to vivacious cowry, he slips into slumberland. Will "Cows Going Past" function as a toddler sedative, as perhaps it is intended to? Or will it stimulate kids into the dread wide-eyed "read it again, Mommy!!" mode? Maybe the latter, but the book is brevity itself, so despair not. "Cows Going Past" is a neat story. Literally.
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From the window, with nose against glass, everything goes past. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
From the window, with nose against glass, everything goes past. Read the first page New!
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