title: How Now, Brown Cow?
author:  Alice Schertle 
description: Like a vaudeville show with nary a weak act, Shertle's (William and Grandpa) collection of poems about cows abounds with tongue-in-cheek spoofs, verbal acrobatics and lyrical songs that are aptly illustrated by debut artist Schaffer's wry cast of brown and purple cows. With understated grace, "Shelter" describes a cow moving "heavily toward sheltering/ aspen.../ At dawn/ a newborn calf/ follows closely at her/ side, his small hooves denting the wet/ prairie." In "Taradiddle," Shertle tells of a cow who, after a famous adventure, "never tried/ to jump again,/ but gazed for hours at the moon." In "April 1," she imagines a day when "the sun/ came up wearing/ a mustache" and a "frisky white [cow] gave vanilla/ milk shakes." With wide-brushed oil paintings, Schaffer is deft at showing both the beauty of milking time (when a cow's "jaws move, chewing/ the good grain, blowing clouds/ of warm breath into the melting/ morning") and the humor of a bespectacled schoolmarm cow teaching calves the difference between the words "cow" and "bough," "moo" and "through." By turns funny and tender, cheeky and thoughtful, this collection turns an unlikely subject into Grade A fare. All ages. <BR>Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  BERRIED
  
  
  ALIVE
  
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  CHELSEA THOMAS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](part0000.html#0-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [Berried
  Alive](part0002_split_000.html#1T140-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [1 How Now Brown
  Cow?](part0003_split_000.html#2RHM0-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [2 Blueprint
  Blues](part0004_split_000.html#3Q280-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [3 Third
  Turtle](part0005_split_000.html#4OIQ0-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [4 Small Town
  Scorn](part0006_split_000.html#5N3C0-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [5 Town Gall](part0007_split_000.html#6LJU0-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [6 Taking the
  (Brief)Case](part0008_split_000.html#7K4G0-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [7 Trailer
  Tragedy](part0009_split_000.html#8IL20-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [8 Sun Don’t
  Shine](part0010_split_000.html#9H5K0-69d00d2a3e4c4202809c8b0f77c9ec31)
  
  
  [9 Land and
  Pleas](part0011_split_000.html#AFM60-69d00d2a3e4c4202809