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Cowlick!
Author: Christin Ditchfield
Illustrator: Rosalind Beardshaw
Publisher: Golden Books
ISBN-10: 0375835407
ISBN-13: 978-0375835407
Cowlick! is a completely charming and beautiful book. The rhyming is rhythmic and funny as well as playful. I loved the feel of it when it was read aloud. The story is about two little boys that fall asleep with smoothly combed hair and wake with wild cowlicks.
"To the bedside she comes sneaking/Lifting covers, gently peeking/Sees a face so soft and sweet/Framed with hair so smooth and neat…."
The explanation is that a cow sneaks into the room at night giving slurpy, wet kisses that sweep the hair up into an unmanageable tangle. It’s a great, silly story and a pretty good explanation for what happens to hair in the night. My granddaughter laughed and laughed.
The illustrations are beautiful, textured and fun. The colors are bold, the cow is adorable on the pages as she comes sneaking, skulking in the night.
The packaging to the book is great as well with a textured big slurp going right across the cover. This book is sure to become a favorite both for the fun silliness of it, the bouncy rhyme and gorgeous illustrations.
Book Description from the publisher
. . . She comes in the middle of the night, when everyone is sleeping. When she sees a smooth little head on a pillow, she can't resist giving it a cow kiss—sluuurrrp! Cowlick! gives young readers an imaginative and playful explanation for the "bedhead" that afflicts us all!
About the Author
Christin Ditchfield is a former preschool and elementary school teacher. She's now a popular speaker and host of the internationally syndicated inspirational radio program "Take It to Heart!" A prolific writer of magazine articles and columns for CBA publications, she's also the author of nearly 50 books, including A Family Guide to "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Cowlick! is her first picture book. She lives in Sarasota, Florida.
About the Illustrator
Rosalind Beardshaw has illustrated dozens of picture books for the British and European market since she graduated from Manchester Polytechnic in 1992. In her spare time, she works as a volunteer with adults with learning disabilities. She lives in York, England.
oh this just looks glorious!! And on your very own doorstep too. Lovely
Beautiful place. Hope to visit some day.
So peaceful and beautiful...thanks for sharing.
So beautiful, Gretel. Your writing matches the pictures perfectly...I do home you're atleast playing with the idea of writing a book involving your life in the country.
okay- I really should read my comments before posting- that should read "I really hope"
You are so lucky to see the hares, they are my very favourite British wild animal. You were doing the same as me on a wet Sunday, rummaging around in my old storage boxes of postcards I have been sent, ones I have picked up in galleries, cute packaging, old birthday cards etc, yes you are right all too precious to be called junk!
What a fabulous treat of a blog! Your writing does match the pictures, as someone above has said. I am obsessed by hares,a s my avatar indicates!
You just can't beat the Cotswolds.
You and I are the lucky ones!
The Hawthorne is so beautiful this year, I seem to be seeing it everywhere, not that I'm complaining. Would love to see the hares boxing they are such magnificent creatures.
Thanks for taking us along on your early morning walk - you defintely live in one of the most beautiful places!
So do the roe deer ever show up in your yard looking for a nosh?
In my teenage years I lived on a mountainside in Utah, and in the winter and early spring the mule deer would come down the mountain and wander around our yard, chewing on bits of new grass and grapevines and anything else that seemed edible. During some winters they would get so hungry that they would approach and eat from your hand, if you were quiet and held still.
oh i love hawthorne blossom! and cow parsley too, theres just something about that heavy/delicate May luxuriance
How thrilling it must have been to have seen those hares. Day's are so wonderful when we experience such sights ! - Julia x