![]() ![]() It seems to go over the heads of many children while being unsatisfying for an adult and generally failing to be entertaining to any parties involved. On some levels, this book may come off as an attempt to milk a chicken. And what is that medal worn by Foul Ole Ron? Bugrit! For the Pratchett/Discworld fan, there are a least a few treasures hidden in the illustrations - such as that portrait of a bearded, black-hatted gentleman on the wall of young Sam's room. There is enough self-referentiation in this very slender volume to make a post-modern literary critic dizzy and gibber about meta-fiction and meta-meta-fiction. ![]() And surrounding these, it is fundamentally a book about Sam Vimes reading a book to his son, a sweet tale of a complex man trying to be a good father. And it is the book that Sam Vimes turns the children's story into (after all, why should a city child be read tales about moo-cows and oink-pigs when there are critters like Foul Ole Ron and Coffin' Henry he is much more likely to encounter?). ![]() ![]() It is the children's book that his grace the Duke of Ankh-Morpork Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, reads without fail every evening to his son, young Sam. "Where's My Cow?" is a companion book to Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel, "Thud!". ![]()
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