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Summary
As a quirky cow discovers, when life gives you a penchant for cold, make . . . something delicious! A comical ode to individuality.
Milly Moo wants only one thing: to churn out the finest, tastiest, creamiest milk around. But there's just one problem. She's always too hot! While all the other cows snicker and bask in the sun, Milly Moo's milk bucket keeps coming up empty. Nada! Zilch! Just when she's sure that the farmer will banish her, Milly Moo wakes to a freezing cold morning. It's her last chance! Will the icy temperature help her make the special milk product she dreams of? With slyly humorous illustrations and a fun final twist, this treat from Fiona Ross will have children begging for second helpings.
Author Notes
Fiona Ross has worked as a freelance concept artist in film and television, designing and developing sets, props, characters, and storyboards. She is fond of creating gadgets, cross sections, and unusual architecture. Chilly Milly Moo is her first book. Fiona Ross lives in London.
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-3-This fun story sports dynamic, exaggerated digital illustrations akin to woodcuts in their texture and line. Clad in a knit hat and boots, Milly Moo is shunned by her bovine friends because she can't make milk. While the other cows bask and boast in the sun, getting ripe for milk making, Milly Moo complains about always being too hot. Finally, one chilly morning, she discovers what she needs to produce a treat that's even better than milk. The tone is informal and quirky, and the cows' dialogue appears in oversize speech bubbles. The homey typeface follows the lines of the wood-planked barn walls, floorboards, and rafters. The perspectives are always a hoot. Young listeners and readers will be as slack-jawed as the rotund, full-bearded farmer when they discover what comes out of Milly Moo. This book conveys explicitly and humorously the message that differences should be accepted without pride or envy. Recommend it for the surprise factor and the blend of old-timey aesthetics and moral.-Sara Lissa Paulson, American Sign Language and English Lower School PS 347, New York City (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Ross makes her children's book debut with a familiar story about not fitting in, one that's enlivened by the eccentricities of her artwork and the book's design. Milly Moo, a cow, can't make milk ("I'm too hot!" she grumps, frowning in her knit cap and boots), and her place on the farm is in jeopardy. The other cows make suggestions ("The sun helps me make milk"), but they can't understand why Milly Moo is different. There's a bit of Lauren Child to Ross's digital illustrations-full of physical humor and emotive characters-which are mostly from a low, barn floor perspective, just right for a story in which milking cows figures prominently. A cold snap reveals that Milly Moo's talents lie not in making milk, but in "the coldest, chilliest, frostiest, iceiest... ice cream," a left-field twist that should draw giggles and help the "be yourself" message go down as smooth as soft serve. Some of the book's typographical flourishes affect readability-the narration sometimes appears within bricks and floorboards in the cows' barn-but readers will be won over by Ross's oddball cast. Ages 3-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
Cow Milly Moo is too hot to make milk. After some melodramatic moping--and a temperature shift--she delivers the goods...in the form of ice cream. In this ode to being different, the prose is punchy ("NOPE / ZILCH / NADA / DIDDLY-SQUAT") and the illustrations accommodating: text occupies the barn's stones and slats, and even the farmer's considerable posterior. Copyright 2010 of The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
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Booklist Review
Milly Moo is a bit of a misfit. Unlike the other cows that live on the farm, she doesn't like warm weather. In fact, the heat makes her unproductive, which in turn makes the farmer angry at her inability to provide milk. He threatens her with banishment, but just when Milly thinks she is a goner, the weather changes. The surprise isn't that she now can make milk, however. Instead, delighted with the chill outside, she provides the surprised farmer with the coldest, chilliest, frostiest, iciest ice cream! Ross' illustrations play with the arrangement of the text on barn boards, in a bucket and often the pictures break their margins. For instance, when Milly fairly explodes with ice cream, splotches of white are randomly spattered about and seem to be dribbling off the page. Milly herself is quite the character, differentially defined by her boots and pom-pom-adorned knit hat. The age-old message is, as Milly proclaims. We're all special! --Cruze, Karen Copyright 2010 Booklist