The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Doyle, Malachy

Cow

40 pp. | McElderry | July, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-689-84462-X $$17.00

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Angelo Rinaldi. In this second-person account of a day in the life of a cow, a dairy cow comes in from the fields for milking, grazes, wanders down to the river for a drink, and passes the hours until it's time for the evening milking. The spare text is poetic but refreshingly frank ("Gently the farmer cleans your udders / and puts tubes on your teats"), and the artist expertly captures texture, light, and shadow in the oversize paintings.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth