Interrupting Cow: Ready-to-Read Level 2

by Jane Yolen, Joëlle Dreidemy (Illustrator)

Overview

From critically acclaimed and prolific author Jane Yolen comes a delightfully funny Level 2 Ready-to-Read story that puts a twist on a classic a knock-knock joke!

Knock, knock...
Who’s there?
It’s Interrupting Cow.
Interrupting Cow wh—!

Well, you know how the joke goes...or do you? Read this side-splitting book to discover the true, surprisingly heartwarming story of the one and only Interrupting Cow!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534454231
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	08/25/2020
Series:	Interrupting Cow
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,091,492
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	540L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Jane Yolen is an award-winning author who has written more than 380 books for children, including the bestseller How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? and the 1988 Caldecott Medal winner Owl Moon. She is known for her beautiful poetry, picture books, fairy tales, novels, and nonfiction, and has even been called “the Hans Christian Andersen of America” (Newsweek). She lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Visit her at JaneYolen.com.

Joëlle Dreidemy can’t remember the first time she started drawing...maybe the first time she picked up a pencil! She spent her childhood among books from Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake, Tony Ross, Ralph Steadman, and others who influenced her style. Joelle studied art at the famous Emile Cohl School in Lyon, France, where she met fantastic and motivating teachers like Yves Got and Jean Claverie. She now lives in Paris illustrating projects for French, English, American, and Korean publishers. When not drawing, Joelle practices karate, plays piano, and goes to museums and the movies.

Editorial Reviews

2020-06-30
A cow comedian seeks out a willing audience for her signature knock-knock joke.

While the other cows in the barn graze on hay for breakfast, Daisy—known to the others as Interrupting Cow—begins her routine. “Knock, knock,” she says. “Who’s there?” they reply. And so the back-and-forth goes until Interrupting Cow interrupts “Interrupting Cow wh—” with a loud “MOO!” She falls “onto the barn floor in helpless giggles” while the other cows run away. She follows them, but the cows ignore her and refuse to play. So Interrupting Cow gives up and visits the duck pond instead. She tells her joke from start to finish, falling “backward into the water with helpless laughter” when she reaches the punchline “MOO!” But when Interrupting Cow recovers, the ducks are gone. The same thing happens with the horses, the chickens, the pigs, the goats, and even the lone donkey. What gives? Her joke isn’t that bad, is it? Yolen’s sidesplitting early-reader series opener cleverly personifies the misunderstood subject of the classic joke. (Interrupting Cow and the Chicken Crossing the Road is due out in December 2020.) Dreidemy’s full-color illustrations add to the hilarity with expressive cartoon character designs. With a total vocabulary of fewer than 200 words—including lots of synonyms—and at most nine lines per page, the text stays accessible to emerging readers. The most difficult word, “interrupting,” is even spelled out phonetically. (This book was reviewed digitally with 9-by-12-inch double-page spreads viewed at actual size.)

A barrel—or, rather, a barn—of laughs. (Early reader. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews