An Occasional Cow

by Polly Horvath

Book Overview

By the author of the Newbery Honor Book Everything on a Waffle and the National Book Award Finalist The Trolls This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374455732
• ISBN13: 9780374455736
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

The Occasional Cow

This book was very good because it told about Imogene Spark and what she did every summer. But this summer her camp burned down and she could not return to her usual summer. Her best friend Edie Finkelstein always goes to camp with her. This summer Edie's parents wanted her to go to a different camp. Imogene's mother called her cousin Bobo, told her the story of the burned camp. Bobo said that she could come to Iowa where they live on a farm. In Iowa, Imogene met her cousins, Josephine, Annie Mae, March, and Nathan, who thought he was a dog. They did a lot of fun things, including, teaching the pigs to curtsy, spied on their neighbors with their sunglasses, entering her gum wrapper chain in the odd contest. Imogene and the others won first prize. At first Imogene thought that she should win first prize alone, she decided to share it with them because they had helped. I enjoyed this book because it was different than normal life, like teaching the pigs to curtsy. Because it was funny and sometimes made me laugh. I would recommend this book if you want to read a good and short book.

An Occasional Cow

This book was very exiting and adventurious. We liked it because it wasn't to long. We also liked it because there was this lady named "the pistachio women" and she hated flying on airplanes. It seemed like it would be a small childs book, but it was really for a 4th grade level. This book made me laugh and I really liked it.

Occasional Cow

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.