Product Description

A Discworld picture book for people of all sizes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2413 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-01
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Synopsis
At six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, Sam Vimes must go home to read "Where's My Cow?", with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do. It is the most loved and chewed book in the world. But his father wonders why it is full of moo-cows and baa-lambs when Young Sam will only ever see them cooked on a plate. He can think of a more useful book for a boy who lives in a city. So Sam Vimes starts adapting the story. It is a story with streets, not fields. It is a book with rogues and villains and about the place where he'll grow up.

From the Inside Flap
At six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, Sam Vimes must go home to read Where's My Cow?, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do.It is the most loved and chewed book in the world.

But his father wonders why it is full of moo-cows and baa-lambs when Young Sam will only ever see them cooked on a plate. He can think of a more useful book for a boy who lives in a city.

So Sam Vimes starts adapting the story. A story with streets, not fields. A book with rogues and villains. A book about the place where he'll grow up.

About the Author
Terry Pratchett:
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.

Customer Reviews

a good way to get the kids hooked on reading
I've been reading this to my friends children and they love it. Especially the youngest. He likes to follow the story while I point at the words. He even stops me when I miss a bit or make a mistake.

I will be moving the older ones onto the "Tiffany Aching" books this week.

It's a great book for kids (and adults too).

It's a great bedtime read for small children
I got this recently, it is now a favourite of my 3 year old daughter as a bedtime book. It is very short and a derivative of "Thud!" which makes it interesting for me and ideal as a five minute read before sleeping.
I do find it funny that it appears that Pete Postlethwaite modelled for the illustrations of Sam (senior).

LOVE IT!
My 15 month old daughter loves this book. My partner got it as he thought it was an adult book but we read it for the first time to my daughter a couple of months ago and she insists on having it read to her every night (about 6 times in a row!!)...we have even hidden it behind the sofa so she can't find it!
Buy it, read it to your kids, make sure you do the noises and voices and then read it again!