The Cow Who Clucked -- Denise Fleming, Hardcover

Cow has lost her moo--can she find it again?

Having lost her moo, Cow is stuck clucking. The only thing to do is go out and find that moo Join Cow and her friends as they conduct their vocal barnyard search. Cow tramps through a wheat field and on into the starry night until she is too tired to look any farther. But in the end, Cow and her moo are reunited, and all is well.

The simple repetition will have children chanting right along with Cow--It is not you who has my moo

Using a van Gogh-inspired palette and art style, Caldecott Honor winner Denise Fleming has created a character who will appeal directly to a preschooler's sense of humor.

The Cow Who Clucked is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author: Denise Fleming
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 08/08/2006
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 10.34h x 10.28w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780805072655
Audience: Ages 4-8

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/10/2006 pg. 80
School Library Journal 08/01/2006 pg. 81
Kirkus Review - Children 08/15/2006 pg. 840
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2006 pg. 565
Booklist 09/01/2006 pg. 135
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2006 pg. 67 - Recommended
Kirkus Best Children's Books 12/01/2006 pg. 6
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2007 pg. 7 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author

Denise Fleming has written and illustrated many children's books, including In the Tall, Tall Grass, Shout! Shout It Out!, and Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy. She won a Caldecott Honor for In the Small, Small Pond. Denise published her first painting in the third grade, when she started taking classes at the Toledo Museum of Art and one of her paintings was chosen to be the cover of a teacher's magazine. She now works primarily with paper, by pouring colored paper pulp through hand-cut stencils. She lives in Toledo, Ohio.