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Title: An Occasional Cow by Polly Horvath, Gioia Fiammenghi ISBN: 0-374-45573-2 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 08 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Occasional Cow
Comment: Occasional Cow is about this girl named Imogene. She always goes to camp but this year she can't, so she has to go to her aunt Bobo's house in Iowa. She has a hard time fitting in at first and then she gets to know them and starts playing with her cousins. She spies on their neighbor with them, with her new sunglasses. She is making the worlds longest gum wrapper chain. Her best friend is Eddie. I think you will like this book. I sure did.
Rating: 3
Summary: Mild country fun
Comment: An Occasional Cow tells the story of Imogene, who lives in New York City but spends all her summers at camp. When her usual camp burns down, though, her parents are desperate to find a place to send her. Aunt Bobo's farm in Iowa is their answer.
In Iowa, Imogene meets her cousins: Josephine, March, Annie Mae, and Nathan. At first, there's some minor clashes between Josephine and Imogene, as the girls are quite similar. As the summer progresses, the group becomes fast friends and shares adventures. They spy on their neighbors, climb the laundry shute, and struggle to train their pigs to curtsey so they can win the annual pig talent show.
An Occasional Cow is light, pleasant fare. There isn't much plot, and what there is is far from compelling, but some of the characters are engaging, and the narrative moves swiftly. There are also touches of humor. Horvath often appears, in this book and in others, to be paying homage to Edward Eager's writing style (there are phrases in all of her books that are more or less direct quotes from Eager's work), so perhaps it isn't too surprising that Cow reads like an Eager book with the magic replaced by more mundane activities.
The book's most serious flaw is its lack of any conflict. Horvath tries, and then discards, one conflict after another, but she just doesn't seem to be comfortable having any of her characters struggle or fight. For example, Imogene doesn't like being sent to camp - she'd prefer to stay in New York - and she hates the idea of going to Iowa. With a set up like that, it seems likely that the story will feature either Imogene's attempts to teach her parents to let her stay home, or Imogene's gradual conversion to loving her summers away. In fact, neither thing happens, because by the end of the second chapter, Imogene is entirely happy and settled into the country, without having changed her general attitude towards her summers at all. The remainder of the conflicts are handled precisely the same way - they show up briefly and are fixed within 15 pages.
All in all, this book is a nice diversion, nothing more, but it might be pleasant for young readers who enjoy light and cheerful stories.
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Title: When the Circus Came to Town by Polly Horvath ISBN: 0374483671 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Trolls by Polly Horvath ISBN: 0374479917 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 09 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (Newbery Medal Book) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The Canning Season by Polly Horvath ISBN: 0374399565 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 07 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Everything on a Waffle (Newbery Honor Book) by Polly Horvath ISBN: 0374322368 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 04 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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