Where's my cow?

I agree - I loved it! So many subtle jokes, hidden in a seemingly innocent kids book. And brilliantly illustrated too...
 
Didn't realise people found it so good! Have to buy it now to add to my Pratchett collection...
 
It's not a kid's book, it's a book for pratchett fans who have read Thud. I thought it was hilarious, probably "squeeze the cash out of readers", but brilliant marketing and it was worth it's money, i thought. I loved so so much when Rob Anybody was reading "Where's me coo" at the end of Wintersmith...
 
Joel007 said:
Really? I though it was just a "squeeze the cash out of the readers" or a kids book. Now I'll have to buy it :)
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It is both, actually. It's basically a spinoff, advertised in Thud! and Wintersmith, and with various in-jokes on the cover, including the "OOK!" certificate of the Unseen University Library. The book itself is nice; very good paintings, but then again also very short. Not really proportional to the rather stiff price.

I don't know how much of a kids' book it really is, either. I mean, it functions like a kids' book, but is it being sold as a kids' book? Is it being sold among other kids' books in ordinary stores that don't necessarily carry all the other Pratchett books?

I love Discworld and the other Pratchett novels, but sometimes I think the spin-off gets a little over the top. Pratchett certainly should be successful enough to do without it.
 
I love it when kid's books are for adults as well - it's just like going to the pantomime - all those double entendres. So, must get myself a copy.
 
It is the book that Vimes read to young Sam at 6 of the clock every evening in Thud.So it is the book, in the book so to speak:)
 
SusanStoHelit said:
It's not a kid's book, it's a book for pratchett fans who have read Thud. I thought it was hilarious, probably "squeeze the cash out of readers", but brilliant marketing and it was worth it's money, i thought. I loved so so much when Rob Anybody was reading "Where's me coo" at the end of Wintersmith...
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The Stones even did a song about it :D Hey Yoo Get off o'Ma Coo :D
 
One of the most Graphic Childerns books i've ever seen! definantle not a bed time story! i like the way the illustrator did the back ground objects in the house. with the stuffed dragon and the Mobile its great!
 
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