Ms. Blanche, the Spotless Cow

by Zidrou, David Merveille (Illustrator)

Ms. Blanche longs to have spots like the other cows in Farmer Goodfellow's meadow, but nothing seems to work until he introduces her to his liveliest bull.

Genres: Picture Books

26 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1993

About the author

Pseudonym of Benoît Drousie.

Reviews

[N]

Blanche was never satisfied with life until she got knocked up and could live vicariously through her calf.

[Karin]

This was weird read. To be fair, the authors are not native English speakers, nor do they reside in my culture. But I am fairly familiar with European culture and this was still weird. It was almost like they wrote the story and then couldn't figure out how to end it, so they chose something that just worked with the idea. The allusion to the bull mating with the cow and making a baby would solve all of her self-image problems? Weird. Glad I managed to get it back to the library after a week. There was a clever nod to Matisse, but even that didn't really fit.