Minnie & Moo: Hooves of Fire
By Denys Cazet
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It's a perfect day for the First Annual Hoot, Holler, and Moo Talent Festival.
The sun is shining in a warm autumn sky and the stage is set. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer are away on vacation, Minnie and Moo are dressed in their togas, Elvis has his bagpipe, the hyenas their jokes, the fox his magic tricks, the sheep a protest poem, and the cash box is stuffed with money from ticket sales. A perfect day.
Wait a minute . . . Where is the cash box? Why are those coyotes on motorcycles? And who pushed those Porta Potties down the hill?
Denys Cazet
Denys Cazet is the author and illustrator of more than 25 picture books for children, including Never Spit On Your Shoes, winner of the California Young Readers Medal. The books about Minnie and Moo are his first for beginning readers. He was inspired to tell stories about the silly cow best-friends when he passed a herd of cows in which all but two were facing the same way. The other two stood next to each other, facing in the opposite direction from the rest of the cows. He immediately dubbed the two nonconformists Minnie and Moo and imagined the adventures two cows who were loyal friends rather than followers of the herd. Mr. Cazet is currently writing I Can Read Books featuring Elvis the Rooster from the farm on which Minnie and Moo live. Mr. Cazet was an elementary school teacher for 25 years, and has also been a school librarian and elementary school media specialist. He remains active in his local elementary school parent and advisory committees. A California native, Mr. Cazet lives with his family in the foothills of the Napa Valley.
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Minnie & Moo - Denys Cazet
Text and illustrations copyright © 2014 Denys Cazet
Book design by Simon Stahl
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information retrieval systems -- except in case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews -- without permission in writing from its publisher, Creston Books, LLC.
The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, cows, weasels, or foxes, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.
Published by Creston Books, LLC
www.crestonbooks.co
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013038846
Source of Production: Worzalla Books, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
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A letter from Minnie
1.Welcome
2.No Meat Will Be Served
3.Eggs
4.The Double P
Word
5.Hooves of Fire
6.Race of The Port-A-Potties
7.My Mother Was a Holstein
8.The B
Word
9.The Sheep’s Protest Poem
10.King of the Road
11.Termites
12.Minnie Sings
13.One-Eyed Charlie
14.Uncle Spam
15.Elvis Gets Sawed In Half
16.The Magic Boxes
17.The Chase
18.The Crash
19.Aloha
20.The Farmer Returns
A letter from Minnie
Dear Reader,
When my best friend, Moo, came up with the idea for a talent festival on our farm, I considered it one of the worst ideas I’d ever heard in my life.
And I mean ever, even from Moo.
She called it The First Annual Hoot, Holler, Cluck, Howl, Roar, Honk, Chirp, Bark, Meow, Whinny, Neigh, Bray, Oink, Grunt, Quack Minnie and Moo Poetry, Song, and Dance Red Tractor Farm Talent Festival of the Ages.
She asked my opinion.
I told her.
But I didn’t say anything in a mean way.
You know how it is when your best friend does or says something you think is silly and then they ask you what you think. Because you love them so much, you can’t say, Are you nuts? That idea is dumber than licking an electric light socket!
No, you can’t say it that way. You have to say you don’t like it or you don’t agree in a way that won’t make them mad (or in Moo’s case, hurt her feelings). After all, it’s what good friends do. So what I said was, Moo, the title is too long.
And that was that.
Almost.
Sincerely,
Minnie
1
Welcome
It was Indian summer on the farm.
The air smelled of damp leaves and fallen apples. An autumn breeze wandered aimlessly up the hill and settled in the limbs of the old oak tree where Minnie and Moo stood on a wooden stage.
They watched all the animals gathering below them at the foot of the hill. Some had spread out blankets on the grass for an afternoon picnic, while others milled about waving to old friends or stopping to be introduced to new ones.
Most of the animals were from neighboring farms. But some, like Irene, the rhinoceros, had once lived in the city zoo. Now she lived on Red Tractor Farm with Minnie and Moo. If Mr. and Mrs. Farmer noticed Irene, they hadn’t mentioned it. There were even a few animals from Africa World who had taken their vacations early to help Minnie and Moo get ready for the festivities. Moo waved to Irene. Irene returned the wave and then went back to handing out the music to the band.
Minnie stood in the center of the stage watching Nadine, the water buffalo, filling the shelves of the Pastry Booth. Two coyotes walked by. When Nadine wasn’t looking, they snatched half a dozen pastries and didn’t pay for them.
Ah,
sighed Moo. Look at that blue sky. A perfect day for the First Annual Hoot, Holler, and Moo Talent Festival.
Maybe,
grumbled Minnie, adjusting Moo’s toga. I just hope the farmer doesn’t come home early from his vacation! There’s always something that can go wrong. Look at those coyotes in black jackets. They just stole some pastries, raspberry, I think. And they rode in on motorcycles! Can you believe it? Motorcycles! And the weasels, see, look how close to the chickens they’re sitting, and…
"You worry too much, Minnie. We have security, see, over there, the Boarzinni brothers, Big Vinnie and Little