Yes You Can, Cow

by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, Rikin Parekh (Illustrator)

Two showstopping talents have created a playful and witty nursery rhyme production! Will the cow jump over the moon?


Yes, you can, Cow! We believe in you!

READY . . . STEADY . . . GO . . .


It's the Nursery Rhyme's big performance, but Cow is having second thoughts. She's too scared to jump! What if she crashes? Will everyone laugh?


The curtain's almost up and the audience are waiting. Can Cow overcome her fear of failure and become the star of the show?


A gorgeous, heartwarming story about believing in yourself and doing your best based on the ever-popular nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle".

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Nursery Rhymes

32 pages, Hardcover

First published February 3, 2022

About the author

Rashmi Sirdeshpande is an award-winning British Indian author of both fiction and nonfiction.
Rashmi gave up her beloved job as a lawyer to spend more time stretching and squeezing words into stories. In 2018, she was selected for the Penguin Random House WriteNow mentoring program and started her writing career by signing with Puffin Books.
Rashmi loves learning about new things, writing, and uses her platform to be the author that she was missing in her childhood.

Reviews

[Amanda Brooke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute book about fear and failing before succeeding. Funding courage has a big deal.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

A funny, laugh out loud book taken from the rhyme Hey DiddleDiddle. Cow is nervous about jumping over the moon and thinks she can’t do it but the task is broken down in to a set of smaller tasks. Cow fails and it celebrates the failure suggesting this is how we learn. A great way to teach younger children about growth mindset, resilience, perseverance and that failure is part of life and learning.

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cow is scared to perform the moon-jumping stunt in a dramatization of Hey Diddle Diddle but with encouragement and a couple failed attempts, works up to it.
Really cute without being preachy or sappy. Fun characters, especially the director.

[Fiona · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son and I loved this jook. Fantastic story about courage and supporting one another. Beautiful and adorable illustrations

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cute book about believing in yourself. Didn't knock my socks off, but it was cute. I can see how kids would like it.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very fun and a good representation of theater work for little kids. And cows.