Santa Cows

Author: Cooper Edens

Title: Santa Cows

Illustrator: Daniel Lane

Genre: Fiction

Subgenre: Traditional Fantasy

Theme: none

Primary Characters: none

Secondary characters: none

Awards: none

Date of publication: 1991

Publishing company: Green Tiger Press

Summary: This is pretty much the story of “Santa Clause” but instead of the traditional Santa and reindeer, the characters are cows.  This might sound a little different but I think it is a cute fresh remake of the normal “Night Before Christmas.”  The one major difference in this book is that when everyone opens their presents from the Christmas cows, they are baseball attire and equipment.  The story ends with the cows singing to the family, and then they all go outside, in the snow, and play baseball all night until the sun comes up.

Use with Students:   This would be a story I might read for fun aloud for my students, or allow them to choose from a bookshelf to read on their own, around Christmas time.  I would have to be careful as to not seem as though I were pushing a certain religion or way to celebrate Christmas.  I think this is a cute, fun book that children in my class would be excited to read.