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The Moo-my's Curse is a Cows in Action story by Steve Cole, written for 7 year olds who think the funniest thing in the world is a cow pun.
There are a lot of cow puns.
Professor Angus McMoo is the brainiest bull alive. He has turned his cow shed into a time machine out of bits the scientist next door chucked in a skip. With him are Pat Vine, a worrier, and his sister Little Bo, who dyes her udder a different colour every day and thinks the answer to most questions is fighting.
They work for the C.I.A., which stands for Cows In Action. Their enemies are the F.B.I., the Fed-up Bull Institute, whose nastiest agents are ter-moo-nators. Half robot, half bull, all trouble.
This is not the first book in the series, but the opening pages explain the shed, the cows and the enemy so briskly that it really does not matter.
The mission is Ancient Egypt in 1250 BC, and the tomb of Tutankhamen. McMoo is thrilled, because he loves history. Bo is less thrilled, and calls the pharaoh Tooting Car Horn throughout, and cannot be corrected.
On go the Egyptian robes and the ringblenders, which are nose rings that make humans see a person instead of a cow. Then they open the tomb, and the mummy case turns out to be empty.
And something in bandages is coming at them with an urn raised over its head.
What your reader is really getting is a very silly comedy with proper history smuggled inside it. Tutankhamen ruled from the age of nine, wore make-up and solid gold sandals, and probably died of a bad leg. The Egyptians thought dying was a bit like moving house, which is why the tomb is stuffed with furniture. McMoo explains all of this while running away.
The jokes are broad and quite a lot of them are about bottoms. Pat and Bo bicker on every page. There is a steaming cowpat used as forensic evidence. If you have a child who reads a line and then immediately reads it to you out loud, this is very much that sort of book.
One thing to mention. Bessie Barmer, the farmer's wife, spends her scenes threatening to have the animals stuffed or turned into burgers and chops. It is played entirely for laughs, she never gets anywhere near it, and the cows are more than a match for her. A very soft-hearted reader might still not find it funny.
Want to see the Time Shed actually get built? The Ter-moo-nators starts the series and it's waiting here. That one runs from a cow paradise in the future to the dungeons of King Henry VIII.
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