Donna O'Neeshuck Was Chased by Some Cows

by Bill Grossman

Book Overview

Donna O'Neeshuck cannot understand why she is being chased by cows, mooses, gooses, and a host of others, until she discovers that her head pats are irresistible. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060221593
• ISBN13: 9780060221591
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

One of the Most Fun Books to Read with Your Children

You might call this review a little 'belated.' We used to read this book to our children from the time they were in pre-school and it was first published (now both in college), but it is without a doubt one of the most fun books we've found of the hundreds we've read to and with them, and one of the most memorable both for them and for us. I have to agree with everything the other reviewers have said. It is so much fun to read aloud and children of just about any age above 2 will get a kick out of the illustrations as Donna is being chased "past chickens and turkeys and birds, through bunches of buffalo running in herds..." To this day I can recite the entire book from memory. And I believe that it was becasue of books like this, and this one in particular, that helped establish our children's love of reading. Over the years we have given this book to our friends as they have had their children, and today use the out of print service to find copies for gifts. We have never failed to get very positive comments about the book years after (and others can't get the story out of their heads' either).

Hilarious book!!!

I love this book. My kids love to read this book with me. This is more for 4 to 6 year olds, but I am sure there are 2 and 3 year olds that will enjoy the pictures and story of Donna Being chased through her town, Through fences and gardens and the barber shop. Very cute. Easy to ready.

I loved this book when I was a kid

My mom used to read this book to us when I was a lass and I can still remember exactly how it goes from cover to cover. I'm a 25 year old grad student, and I STILL can't get the contagious, singsong rhyme scheme out of my head. This will be a book you'll remember for the rest of your life, whether you want to or not. It also contains great pictures, and may have initially formed my equally enduring fascination with redheads. I especially like how she ends up with the hot guy with the bike at the end. I love Donna and I love head pats.

Excellent introduction to rhythm in poetry

I have read literally hundreds of books to my children (3 and 5) and this is one of the best we have found so far. My 5 year old is memorizing it line by line and I don't mind reading it over and over and over as the rhythms are so much fun and the rhyming is clever!

Wonderful Rhyming Rhythms

Even if the story weren's so darn cute, the rhythm of the words would have hooked my two-year-old (and me!) Kudos to Grossman and also to illustrator Truesdell who has pictured all the action so delightfully.