From School Library Journal
Grade 1-3-Minnie and Moo are two enterprising cows who get into scrapes trying to engage in human activities such as dressing up and dancing at a party and driving a tractor. Cazet's pencil-and-watercolor illustrations perfectly capture the comical atmosphere of the stories, but the texts are not geared to the intended audience. Much of the tongue-in-cheek humor will be lost on newly independent readers and in some places the sly jokes seem inappropriately sophisticated. In Dancing, two farmers at a party yell "YA-HOO!" when Minnie takes off her girdle, and again when they find other articles of discarded clothing. Cazet has written many popular picture books in which his texts suit the intended audience and flow naturally. Unfortunately, in these easy readers, this balance is lost.
Diane Janoff, Queens Borough Public Library, NYCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
paper 0-7894-2536-4 In Cazet's saga of two bovines, Minnie and Moo are enjoying a sunset when sounds of a dance at the farmer's home drift up to them. Minnie, the sharp one, suggests to Moo, the dim one, that they attend. They rifle through an old trunk in the barn for dresses, deodorant, hair coloring, and a girdle for Minnie. They appear at the dance, are mistaken by the farmer's wife for her husband's twin sisters, are introduced to a couple of country boys, and get down to business. The two couples retire to the food table and start eating until Minnie realizes they are snacking on hamburgersvery likely the Holsteins that had gone missing earlier in the evening; ``I'm sorry, Madge,'' Moo said. ``I didn't know it was you.'' They beat a hasty retreat, give the hamburgers a proper burial, and leave readers with much to chew overfor starters, cannibalism and a strip teasebut it's presented in a winning format, with so much humor and dash, that the proper response is to not take it seriously. (Picture book. 7-10) --
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