Amazing Cows: Udder Absurdity for Children

From Sandra Boynton -- as it could only come from Boynton -- an inventive new exuberant jumble of a book for the young reader. <i>Amazing Cows</i> is a picture book, a storybook, a book of fun and games -- it's all those things in one. Plus it even shows you how to find the startling recording of Maurice Ravel's &quot;Bolero Completely Unraveled for Orchestra and Kazoos&quot; performed by Sandra Boyton &amp; The Highly Irritating Orchestra. (Running time is 17:14, but seems MUCH longer.) <br><br>A work of pure obsession, <i>Amazing Cows</i> celebrates cows and offbeat cowness with a miscellany of cow stories, cow poems, cow jokes, and other bovine ephemera. Along the way, expect lively guest appearances by ducks, pigs, and excessive numbers of chickens. There's a song: &quot;It Had to Be Moo.&quot; A game: &quot;Find the Hidden Cows.&quot; Famous Barnyard Composers (surely you've heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Moozart and Johann Sebastian Bockbockbock) . Knock-knock jokes, a cow myth, and an Amazing Cow comic-book adventure: &quot;Trouble on Zebblor 7.&quot; Cow fashion. Cow Limericks. How to Speak Cow. Plus so much mooer.<br><br><i>Amazing Cows</i> is full-color, 96 pages long, and packed with the kind of 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.<br><br>