A work of pure obsession, AMAZING COWS! celebrates cows and offbeat cowness with a miscellany of cow stories, cow poems, cow jokes, cow songs, cow games, cow comics, plus lively guest appearances by ducks, hippos, pigs, and excessive numbers of chickens. There are songs: "It Had to Be Moo." Games: "Find the Hidden Cows." Knock-knock jokes. Fables and stories. An Amazing Cow comic-book adventure: "Trouble on Zebblor 7." Ask Gertrude (an advice column). Cow fashion. How to Party Like a Cow. Plus so much mooer. AMAZING COWS! is oversize, full- colour. 80 pages long, and packed with the kind o silly fun that young readers adore, especially when they can read it to themselves---and then read it to their parents, and then to their little brothers, and then to the family dog. Or the family cow.
Author Biography
Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children's author, songwriter, producer, and director. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over sixty children's books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. More than 70 million of her books have been sold, "mostly to friends and family," she says. She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children's music. Three of her albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold), and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has gone Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning "One Shoe Blues" starring B.B. King, "Alligator Stroll" starring Josh Turner, and "Tyrannosaurus Funk" (animation) sung by Samuel L. Jackson. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.
