Come Down Now, Flying Cow
Kindergarten-Grade 2.  This entry in the familiar beginning-to-read series follows the rhyming adventures of Beth the Cow. She and her bird companion fly off in a hot-air balloon, inadvertently collecting items as they bump and thump past a fisherman, a plane, a house, an apartment, a baseball game, etc. The silly story line and cartoon illustrations are just average fare. Though not written for beginning readers, Paul Brett Johnson's The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down (Orchard, 1993) is a delightful nonsensical flying cow adventure; buy it if you don't own it and save your easy-reader budget for better titles.?Gale W. Sherman, Pocatello Public Library, IDCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.