I am Cow, Hear me Moo
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4.0 • 8 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Best-selling author, Jill Esbaum, and fantastic illustrator (author), Gus Gordon, team up for this funny and oddly reassuring rhyming romp about the brilliantly brave . . . Nadine the Cow.
Nadine is a 'truly remarkable cow' who is afraid of absolutely nothing; or so she claims. She's a bit of a show-off, really, and when her friends take her up on her offer of a tour through the woods, Nadine is in her element. Then night falls, and when her friends leave and Nadine is left to explore a dark cave all on her own, suddenly she doesn't feel quite to brave after all.
Oh, you are going to love this book. I'm great in it - really brave. You're smart to read this. Not as smart as me, of course, or as brave, but then, I am cow, hear me moooooooo!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When readers meet Nadine, she's positioning herself among her sister cows as possessing superhero-like courage: " Not lightning?' asked Starla. Loud noises? A rat?'/ I'm not scared,' Nadine boasted, of any of that.' " Much to Nadine's surprise, the cows insist she lead them on an expedition to the scary woods. The outing begins well enough, but after dark falls and Nadine's fear gets the best of her, she turns the lack of witnesses to her advantage: "She was scared of the woods./ But so what? She could smile/ because nobody knew it./ (At least for a while.)" Gordon (Herman and Rosie), whose animal comedy is in the same goofy-yet-expertly-composed vein as Betsy Lewin and Nadine Bernard Westcott, combines watercolor, crayons, and pencil with witty collage touches; in one scene, Nadine and her friends climb a tree made entirely of taped-together strips of green paper. Esbaum's (I Hatched!) breezy verse lesson, which essentially boils down to "Fake it 'til you make it," is a refreshing, down-to-earth twist on oft-seen picture-book moralizing. Ages 3 5.
