Where's My Cow?

by Terry Pratchett | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0060872675 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 10/11/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Another impulse buy, this. It's a slender hardcover that looks like a child's picture book - not too surprising, as it's based on one. But the book on which this is based is the favorite bedtime reading of Young Sam Vimes, the offspring of Ankh-Morpork's top cop and his dragon-breeding wife Sybil, which should tell the alert reader that it isn't going to be a typical bedtime story.

The book-within-a-book is taken pretty much verbatim from episodes in Thud!, so if you've read that you already know how this will go - but it's still cute to see Melvyn Grant's illustrations of Sam and Sybil at home. The book starts out with Sam reading "Where's My Cow?" to his son, complete with dramatic renditions of each of the different animal noises: "It goes, 'Hruuugh!' It is a hippopotamus! That's not my cow!". But when Sam decides that his city-born son is never going to encounter random cows, goats, or hippopotami, he decides to alter the text a bit, and introduces characters more likely to be encountered in the city: "It goes 'Bugrit! Millennium Hand and Shrimp!' It is Foul Ole Ron! That's not my daddy!" [Young Sam finds this hilarious, but Sybil is not pleased.]

While the book's a bit simple for grown-up Discworld fans and a bit weird for actual toddlers [not that that's a BAD thing], I still got a kick out of it, especially the attention to detail; for example, there's a cover-blurb on the back of the book from the Times of Ankh-Morpork, and a gold medal on the cover indicating that the book's an award-winner. [The medal features a pair of bananas and the word "OOK!".] The copyright page has this nice touch: "This book was originally published in the Year of Three Horses by Rouster & Sideways, 33b Gleam Street, Ankh-Morpork (please use rear staircase: closed on Fridays)." And the keen-eyed might even spot a cameo appearance by Mr. Pratchett himself...

Journal Entry 2 by wingGoryDetailswing at Le Parc de Notre Renaissance Française in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, September 17, 2006

Released 17 yrs ago (9/17/2006 UTC) at Le Parc de Notre Renaissance Française in Nashua, New Hampshire USA

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I'm planning to stop by the farmer's market near the Main St. bridge today (click here for the Nashua Downtown page with details), and since the Parc de Notre Renaissance Française is nearby I will wander down there and leave this book on or near the lovely statue of the pioneer woman and her child, probably some time around 1:30. Hope the finder enjoys it!

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