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Farmer Enno and His Cow
When Farmer Enno's dreams about boats start producing real boats, he goes to the city with his cow, Africa, to find a cure for his dream sickness in a curiously offbeat picture book.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 1998
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September 2, 2013
Basic plot: Farmer Enno dreams of ships and the sea, dreams that are a little more real than he's comfortable with.
My little guy picked this one off the library shelf completely at random, which is the absolutely best way to pick books. He's asked for it more than once, too, which shows it has re-reading power. The story's basic moral is to follow your dreams via a very concrete metaphor. That bit cracked me up and satisfied my inner English teacher quite a bit. I thought the art was ok, but not fantastic. The text was also separate from the pictures on plain white pages faced with the art. Being as the art was filled with lots of dark colors, this was jarring to the eye. The cow as a character was also a mite bit strange, too, and I'm not sure if this was an adaptation of a much older tale that I'm not aware of and that's why I was confused. The ending was fun, though, and that counts for a lot.
My little guy picked this one off the library shelf completely at random, which is the absolutely best way to pick books. He's asked for it more than once, too, which shows it has re-reading power. The story's basic moral is to follow your dreams via a very concrete metaphor. That bit cracked me up and satisfied my inner English teacher quite a bit. I thought the art was ok, but not fantastic. The text was also separate from the pictures on plain white pages faced with the art. Being as the art was filled with lots of dark colors, this was jarring to the eye. The cow as a character was also a mite bit strange, too, and I'm not sure if this was an adaptation of a much older tale that I'm not aware of and that's why I was confused. The ending was fun, though, and that counts for a lot.
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